[Pajamas Media] Michael Ledeen - There's always a certain fascination watching tyrannies coming unstuck, and the convulsions of the Iranian regime are more colorful than most, as you'd expect from such clever and imaginative people, who specialize in illusion. The Iranians, on both sides, understand the stakes. They know that it is now too late to "fix" the political situation. There is no conceivable consensus to bind up the wounds caused by the regime's brutality, mass repression, and slaughter of innocents. And there is no way for the U.S. to avoid "meddling," since the internal conflict is over our values and our vision. As it has been for the past thirty years, we're the target of a war declared and waged against us by the Islamic Republic. We can win or lose, but we can't opt out of it. The writer is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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