re: #274 haakondahl

Half a beat behind. The coup has already been carried out, and this is a reaction. You are correct about the dictatorship—I saw an article about the pesky Islamist aspect of the dictatorship having been defenestrated. It is now a purely military dictatorship, with the roles of puppet and master reversed—MA did for the Mullahs.
The question now is will it stand? The people of Iran seem to say no. We seem to say nothing.

Some of the people of Iran say no, obviously all do not. Sure it would feel good to see Obama make more noise, but there is time yet.

I agree however, whatever some think, that coming out too soon against the regime would only play into their hands by giving them the excuse to call it all a CIA plot (remember how the Shah was once helped?). I think it was instructive that the Supreme whatsits chose to call Britain the great satan the other day, not the USA.

The time will come to call them what they are when they have killed more of their own, but simply lambasting Obama for not using tougher words at this stage is silly and would only play into the Mullah’s hands if he did and have more people killed sooner.

As to what we can do about it. Nothing that counts, short of war.