Faster, Please

Michael Ledeen, the biggest Iran-hawk you can find today (the title above is his mantra and sign-off to every essay on the subject) re-interprets yesterday's intelligence coup. I've been suspecting and saying for some time (although not here) that the mullarchy in Iran may collapse of its own weight. But I've read some about revolutions, and I know the inescapable First Rule of Revolution: the Tyrant has to blink first. So far, the mullahs haven't. But I don't see things getting less volatile in Persia, especially if Iraqi self-government becomes a reality. It may take only the tiniest loss of morale to make the wretched fundamentalists collapse.




Incidentally, I meant to mention how the story is being spun to add another Log to the bonfire of "Bush Lied!" See, the fact that al Qaeda isn't winning recruits among the people couldn't possibly mean that our effort is successful. No, it must mean that it was never worth fighting in the first place, because Iraqis and al Qaeda were never connected in the first place (implicit in this is the assumption that we should only fight al Qaeda, because none of the other organizations have attacked us yet. We have to take this hydra head by head, or the UN might not like us), because Bush. Is. Evil.




Fortunately, Instapundit has all the details for me, so I don't have to mention it.




Woops, too late.