New Conservative Line: Iran’s President Doesn’t Matter!

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From Matt Duss at Think Progress:

As Dana Goldstein indicates, the newly minted conservative position on Iran is that, regardless of all the time and effort they’ve spent over the last four years setting up Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new Hitler, it really doesn’t matter who the president of Iran is, because Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is in charge. In the event that Ahmadinejad is defeated at the polls, expect a landslide of conservatives making this argument. I suspect that even John McCain — who famously refused to hear anything about it last year — will suddenly magically discover that the Supreme Leader is actually the supreme leader.

Great piece. Now, ask yourself..."What's their bottom line, then? What do they really want?"

How long before the new generation of Operation Ajax-ers realize that the Ayatollah Khomeini could not have been possible without the Shah? Or does it even matter to that type?

Or is it always an Orange Revolution when it's against someone we don't like?

This message is probably a few weeks premature. I blame it on Matt. ;-)

PB