It seems as if the one communications medium the regime has not been able to disrupt in Iran is Twitter. Thank goodness technology moves more quickly than various states’ clumsy efforts to disrupt and control it in their interests.
Here, through Andrew Sullivan’s blog, is a collection of Tweets from inside Iran. And if you want to follow developments in something close to real time, Andrew’s blog with dozens of posts a day is as good a source as I have found. I recommend bookmarking it and returning often — as well as returning here often of course! George Packer has interesting ongoing comments, as does Juan Cole. Foreign Policy magazine is also worth checking, especially blog posts from Dan Drezner and Shadow Govt.
Does anyone find this stuff useful or interesting, or would you rather talk about nthe sheriff.
Ok. I’ll bite Alan. The collection is rather facinating. Read the whole thing.
The Iranian students are getting beaten up, killed and threatened, and the leader of the free world sits idly by wasting time waiting on how to make the next move. Now is the West’s chance to link up with a new Revolution and offer vocal support, but sadly we have President who is a political hack rather than a Statesman. This is just pathetic.
Not even close Catfish.
The Iranian election was coming up in 10 days time and the Leader of Free World gave a thoughtful nuanced speech in Cairo and talked directly to the Iranian people as well as the broader Muslim world. He then carefully avoided giving their right wing a big fat target to organize against. Brilliant but misunderstood by the neocons and unappreciated by conservatives in general.
If this is the Twitter revolution, note that the State Department had Twitter postpone an update in order to avoid downtime in Iran.
What would W do? Shudder.
Now is not the time for caution, but boldness and a stand for freedom. No matter how hard the U.S. tries to appease and please the Iranian regime it will never work. Haven’t we learned these lessons before in recent history?
Yes we did. During the Palestinian elections, which Pres. W. pushed for, and became a referendum of support for Hamas. So that is what bold, but un-thought out action got you. I think you’ve mentioned liberal Bush haters as having their blinders on. So what about your blinders Catfish? Are you able to take those off once in awhile?
Catfish may not want my opinion but I felt the desire to add something in here.
I think there are a lot of folks who feel idealism about freedom and would like to more actively push back what most all Americans think are injustices and cruelty.
Can’t blame a guy for caring and wanting to take a stand against what he/she sees as oppression. Unfortunately there are two or three things we can’t do much about. Convincing the world that we know best, giving advice that is not welcome or understood and realizing there is true evil among the world’s citizens.
Even as children we fight against what “isn’t fair” and come to grips with what we can control, over time and with maturity we can pick our fights, sometimes they are forced on us.