by Mark Rhoads
I am not really sure why exactly, but many of my liberal (sorry, aka "progressive") friends seem caught up this last week in following and actually rooting for good guys-the democtratic opposition in Iran. This is not only spectator sport on Twitter for them, they really want to see the hard-line Islamic tryants come down. Good for them.
Even a busted clock is right two times a day and when the hard leftists actually come down for real freedom, conservatives I think should applaud and welcome that and I do even though I don't understand why this cause for freedom in Iran captures their imagination on Twitter but the cause of other freedom-loving people does not. It must be hard for them not to find a reason to blame the US first for something bad. Some "prograssives" have actually dared to criticize their own dear supreme leader for being too timid in speaking out against the mullahs.
Does anyone have an idea why liberals are making the right noises this time around and not other times? Could this be a modern anti-tyranny popular front in the making--like the anti-Franco side in Spain in 1937? But do they emerge back in form as lefties again on the other side of this?
