Zandar's Thought Of the Day

If you're wondering why Iran's leadership has gone from "Allah wanted Ahmedinejad to win" to "Well, there are some irregularities here" to "We're open to a recount" it could very well have everything to do with the fact yesterday's rallies at Revolution Square in Tehran drew not 100k but 2 to 3 million Iranian protesters in a country of roughly 72 million people.

When four percent of your entire country is willing to defy your theocratic decree and protest your regime on 24 hours notice, you're in trouble. Big trouble.

On the other hand, the silliness of the wingers rolls on.

Lefties keep assuring me on Twitter that western meddling will only make it easier for the regime to demonize the protesters, but (a) the demonization’s going to happen anyway, (b) no one’s asking Obama to send in the Marines, just to speak up, and (c) Angela Merkel managed to issue a statement earlier today calling the Basij thuggery “completely unacceptable” without killing the uprising in its crib. And still, from the White House, nothing. To think, some commentators are accusing The One of “cowardly silence.”

Which is funny, because (a) giving Iran an opportunity to settle this themselves and not demonize us would be a smart, diplomatic thing to do in order to prevent further demonization, (b) Marines no, but bombing Iran's nuclear sites seems to come up almost weekly with the wingers and (c) I thought the opinions of Germany, being part of Old Europe, didn't matter to you guys since 9/11.

The world continues to watch Iran and Obama did issue a statement last night anyway.

[UPDATE] Double G weighs in on the Bomb Iran crowd suddenly being concerned about the democratic rights of brave Iranians being impinged upon...you know, the same people who in the eyes of Republicans were up until Saturday simply the Faceless Beturbaned Brown Islamofascist Horde, Tehran Division.