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Originally Posted by Deckard
Suffice to say, while there's obviously a lot more angles to this than the American politics angle, I have to say I think Obama is playing this just right.
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Like the Iranians will just stop what they are doing and exclaim "So remember that western power that gave us the shah out of their own economic self interest and used our freedoms as a pawn in a battle with another eastern power? They have a new conviction about how we should run our country. Hooray for us."
This isn't just another news story. This is man on the moon, berlin wall kind of shit. Here's a country locked in one of the most theocratic strongholds of the world, rising up almost spontaneously and unanimously and everyone thinks this has enough traction to work.
This is why it will work and why the rest of the middle east continues to wallow in the morrass of their own oppresion and corruption. This movement has specific incremental goals. They want more money to trickle down from the oil exports like its done in every other opec country. They want fair elections. Full stop. They are not demanding the overthrow of the government. THey are not justifying murder for some glorious cause. They are not following the dictates of a religious hack, telling them Allah won't give them blessings until they usher in the government of sharia law.