If there is a consensus on events in Iran — even as (sigh) traditional partisanship starts to surface on talk radio and elsewhere, where events in Iran and responses to it take back seat to trying to score political points — it is this: the America must stand with the people in Iran who believe the vote there was either totally rigged or..embellished.
Now the questions become: why…and how? Some must-read thoughts.
First, here’s one via from Eric Rall.
Also be sure to read the always thoughtful Dave Schuler who looks at the issue of engaging Iran HERE.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.