The international fervor over the Iran election situation has become ALL you see on the news or online lately.
Would I like to see the election overturned, and see Mousavi get his victory? Yes, I guess.
But I cannot help but feel that, by caring so much about an election taking place within the system of a dictatorial, theocratic government, that we are, in a way, legitimatizing it.
Even if Mousavi does eventually get a recount and win, he is still a conservative tool of the Iranian revolutionary government, led by an Ayatollah.
In a way, perhaps, we should welcome the sham election. It just reminds the world that the Iranian government is NOT a democracy, and that there can be NO SUCH THING as a democracy when the country has a "Supreme Leader" who is elected for life.
Friday, June 19, 2009
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