[link|http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/cat_index_30.shtml|Well, something's up]

This looks like more than just chanting slogans and distributing fliers. These kids are rioting. They want democracy, and they're willing to get [link|http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4146.shtml|killed] for it.

But a student uprising alone isn't going to do it against a [link|http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4130.shtml|brutal, non-democratic regime.] (That's the real thing, mind you. Not just rhetoric. Protesters die from torture there.) Never did, never will. They'll have to escalate to a full-blown civil war. And even that may not be enough. Will this be Solidarity in Poland or just the Shia uprising of the early 1990's? [link|http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4132.shtml|US support] can make all the difference. Depends how much we care about democracy and human rights. Me, I'm for democracy. But I know many here disagree.

Say, where's International ANSWER / WWP on all this? Or the UN? Uh, never mind. Forget I asked.

Hey, I wonder if [link|http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4153.shtml|this here] actually happened the way they describe it? Probably exaggerated a bit.

Musharraf's already trying to make nice. That's one of three halfway down.

Oh wait. Was that a rhetorical question?

"Fomenting revolution" worked just fine is Eastern Europe in the early 1990's. We kept the pressure on the Soviet empire until it tottered, and the locals took it from there. With NATO tanks and planes standing by.

(I don't know if that qualifes as "fomenting revolution" in the proper sense, but you chose that term. And it *does* qualify as exactly what you seem to be applying it to. Whatever you call it, it works.)

Qadaffi caved after we took Saddam out, and he's hundreds of miles away from our forces in Iraq, or any other large concentration of democratic might. Where's Iran? Look on a map, and tell me what you see.