Featured Articles — June 14, 2009

June 14, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting Takes From Home And Abroad:

Winds of Change? By Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introduction. It was going to be very simple — just one page, indeed just one line: “Nothing has changed.”

The West fooled itself Iran would allow reform By Amir Taheri, Newsweek
Barack Obama found it “exciting” and Hillary Clinton saw it as “a positive sign”. Others, like Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former US national security adviser, went further and praised it as a “vibrant democracy”. A variety of useful idiots at home and abroad expressed similar illusions about the Iranian presidential election on Friday.

‘It’s a Coup d’Etat’ By Maziar Bahari, Newsweek
Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi say their candidate was the victim of electoral fraud.

The Changing Face of Iran By Christopher Dickey, Newsweek
“Your people, sir—your people is a great beast!” the American founding father Alexander Hamilton is supposed to have spluttered at a dinner party more than two centuries ago. He was not a fan of popular democracy, much less of what would later be called populism: he deemed the people too emotional, too volatile, too inclined to vote against their own best interests. And there probably are a good number of analysts in Europe and the United States who feel that way about the voters who just returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power in Iran.

Iran: There Will Be Blood By Steve Clemons, The Washington Note
Last night in London after appearing on Keith Olbermann’s show, I got an email from a well-connected Iranian who knows many of the power figures in the Tehran political order asking to meet me. I told him that the only place possible was Paddington on the way to Heathrow — and there we met.

Not quite splitting the difference on Jerusalem By David Frum, National Post
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will give a speech this weekend accepting President Obama’s call for a sovereign Palestinian state.

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