Sunday, June 21, 2009
Michael Ledeen has A Letter from Mousavi's Office. Mousavi is, unsurprisingly, not thrilled at being told he's no better than Ahmadinejad. While there probably isn't much more than a nickel's worth of difference between the two from our perspective, there's a huge difference between the dictatorship of the Mullahs and the street movement that has errupted.
Victor Davis Hanson has some of the reasons our president should be speaking out: "This Is the Moment"?
Caution is one thing, neutrality another. The United States should never be ashamed of a failure to remain neutral between people yearning for freedom and their fanatic oppressors.
Via Instapundit, good advice from Jeffrey Goldberg, "The overarching goal is to see the birth of a democratic Iran, not to make ourselves feel good, or get in the way." As an aside, what the hell happened to Andrew Sullivan? I haven't read him in years, since he first started going off the rails, but yeesh...has he drunk the Walt & Mearsheimer KoolAid or what?
Patterico has contrasts in text.
Most importantly: Her name was Neda, and she was 16.
Update: Or was she 27? Allahpundit is tracking things down.