Tom is on Fire with Iran posts
by tdaxp ~ June 30th, 2009
No complaints here. All are worth reading.
- The third pole in Iranian politics is the one that interests me
- More than one Iranian bomb
- Tehran and oppression
- How authoritarian is Iran?
- Blame Britain
- The importance of Iranian women protesters
- Tumult in Iran, and happiness
- Institutionalized religion never really works with democracy
- The military coup in Iran–one argument
- Regarding Obama’s increasing “tougher stance”
- The goal: tarnish Iran’s current regime as much as possible
- The picture-perfect martyr
- Clerics joining the protests
- Ahmadinejad not to be sworn in until August
- Only Ahmadinejad can go to America
- Brooks on Iran’s fragility
- Brezhnevian Iran–see the film
- Why globalization wins in Iran–in the end
I especially liked Tom’s comparison of the 2009 Islamic Republic with the 1820 United States.
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July 1st, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Nice way to describe Tom’s views on Iran. Much of what is happening seems to vindicate what Tom has preached for some time that change will have to come from those energized and connected young people throwing off the yoke of the Mulahs.
July 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Tom has an excellent piece on Honduras as well [1]:
A quote:
It makes me really miss what we lost when he left the Naval War College.
[1] http://www.esquire.com/the-side/war-room/honduras-coup-analysis-070909