LINK: I might just be spacing out on finding the permalink, but Mr. Pete's Journal has a nice post on Iran:
"This sounds interesting. A plan for the peaceful removal of the mullahs? It would be wonderful if it happened, especially if a new government in Iran was committed to democracy, individual rights and rule by law. I can't see that the mullahs would willingly give up power. Peaceful resistance, along the lines of the successful resistance against the British in India, doesn't seem to me that it would be effective against the brutal theocracy in Iran. Gandhi's non-violent resistance in India was effective in large part because the British could not conscience aggressive retaliation against passive resistance. In my view, the ayatollahs would not have such restraint. In Iran, I fear non-violent resistance would be met by brutal retaliation, arrests and torture.
I look forward to hearing this plan for peaceful removal of the Islamic Regime. If it is realistic, can be carried out, and is followed by a democratic, secular government that respects the rule of law and individual rights, it would be a fantastic and wonderful victory, indeed. The people of Iran, and the whole world, would be much better for it."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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