A reader writes:
It occurred to me that should, somehow, Moussavi pull off the win and become the new president of Iran, ousting that moral midget, Ahmadinejad, that the neo-conservatives – who have spent the last few years making Ahmadinejad out to be worse than Hitler, an imminent threat to both the US and Israel, quite possibly the most dangerous man in a region filled with dangerous men, despite the fact that he occupies an office with few real powers and is, in all reality, merely the useful idiot of the ruling clerical clique – would abruptly shift gears and go back to telling us that the Iranian presidency, as an office, means nothing and that the election doesn't change anything, and that the real power rests with the Supreme Council, and so on and so forth, just as they did when
Khatami was president.
And I see that K-Lo and Rubin are here to please.
The neo-conservative project has always been regime change in Iran; Ahmadinejad simply made it easier for them. I expect, should Moussavi win, to watch a parade of neocons on television telling me that Iran is still dangerous and that the Iranian president is impotent and powerless, despite the fact that they spent the last 5 years warning us about the unmitigated danger of an Ahmadinejad-led Iran.
So: here's hoping for a Moussavi win, here's an acknowledgement that it won't profoundly affect the power structure of Iran even if it indicates something about the mood of the Iranian people, and here is hoping you relentlessly focus on the hypocrisy of "bomb now, bomb always" crowd.
The Dish 