Persian People Power

Fire of Liberty

While MSM and the various Democrats like Senator Clinton throw complaints after complaints about the White House failing to prevent or hinder the mad mullahs of Iran from getting "the bomb" not to mention the various nations getting cold feet in reporting Iran's violations before the Security Council, Tehran's Bus drivers have planned a massive work stoppage due to the regime's heavy handedness and refusal to allow them to organize into a union. Though a lot of folks are wringing their hands on how to handle the situation in Iran, you'd think they'd would look beyond the distractions being put up by the President of Iran and realize that there is solution ruminating in the streets of Iran which is people power. As Michael Ledeen notes in his many articles and his book The War Against the Terror Masters, the people of Iran has the greatest ability to enact change if they are given the political/moral/economic support from the West. We have seen in the past where unions like Solidarity achieved great results in places like Poland during the Cold War when Thatcher, Reagan, PJP II, and the rest of "Free Europe" offered such support. While the mullahs are far different from the communists of Poland they still are totalitarian systems that can be taken down by the people (It happened in 1979 in Iran and can definitely happen again). I just wished that the efforts on behalf of the workers and students of Iran would be heralded by more in the media than the insane ramblings of Ahmadinejad. I suspect that the regime is so scared about what's going on in the streets that they put up their angry Potemkin village to keep the world's focus elsewhere when the real story is with the folks of Iran. So once again let's pay closer attention to the folks of Iran and encourage their efforts against the regime thus saving our troops from getting pulled into another hot war. I prefer a Cold War approach over the alternative and we've got a willing army in the Iranian populous to get 'er done. I wish the drivers great luck in their efforts to knock the regime off its throne.