by Damozel | And he deserves it. At Swampland, he elaborates at further length on his remarks last night on Larry King Live.
He also calls out the Republicans on the fallacy of the yank-loving moderate Iranians, which is a point that needs to be articulated more often. This business of conflating every revolution is flat-out disrespectful as well as ignorant, and Klein says so.
The protesters admire our freedom, but they are appalled--and insulted--by our neocolonialist condescension over the past 50 years. The reformers, and even some conservatives, consider Ahmadinejad the George W. Bush of Iran--a crude, unsophisticated demagogue, who puts a strong Potemkin face to the world without very much knowledge of what the rest of the world is about. This was an anology that came up in interview after interview, with reformers and conservatives alike.
Annnnnd....that's got the hallmark on it.
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