"- without the world watching, the worst of the protestors could be dealt with ruthlessly, and the rest intimidated into submission. But not now."
Maybe in Tiananmen Square in 1989 with only journalists present, but certainly not now with the internet like in Burma in late 2007. Oh wait. Bad example.
So lets keep stirring the pot and we won't let it be like Burma because if the military start crushing the protests we'll ... what? Invade? So we can kill Persians instead of letting Persians kill Persians?
Still, the action is begun, it has to play out now one way or the other. Nothing invites authoritarian rule quite like civil unrest no matter which side wins.
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Date: 2009-06-17 08:44 pm (UTC)Maybe in Tiananmen Square in 1989 with only journalists present, but certainly not now with the internet like in Burma in late 2007. Oh wait. Bad example.
So lets keep stirring the pot and we won't let it be like Burma because if the military start crushing the protests we'll ... what? Invade? So we can kill Persians instead of letting Persians kill Persians?
Still, the action is begun, it has to play out now one way or the other. Nothing invites authoritarian rule quite like civil unrest no matter which side wins.