Quick question: what do confused sectors of the Western radical left and the editorial board of the New York Times agree about? That last June’s Iranian presidential election, which almost certainly was not fraudulent, was fraudulent, that Ahmadinejad is not the legitimately elected president of Iran, that to analyze or criticize the tactics or ideologies of […]
It looks like no one voted for Ahmadinejad. Stipulate that fact, and everything falls into place: Ahmadinejad has no legitimacy. His economic programs were worse than worthless. The countryside despises him. The cities are in revolutionary ferment. His populism was sheer charlatanism. His rhetoric, abrasive demagoguery. If no one voted for him, it becomes easy to […]