The People of Iran: Not a "Happy Camper"

At Captain's Quarters this morning, Captain Ed has posted on a story run by the Washington Post. It concerns the unease felt by the Iranian people with reguards to their government's stand against the world. I touched on this about a week or so ago, here.

No matter how one looks at the situation as it stands right now, the losers seem to be the Iranian people - the people that resent their government for how it rules, and struggle under its boot. Even if military action is taken, and I support it being so, the people of the country will find themselves continuing to suffer at the hands of their government, possibly as retaliation for any action taken by the nations of the world against them (the government). This assists (I believe) in making the case for State Department funding going towards democracy efforts in Iran (as the Sec. of State testified a few weeks ago).

If you give a mouse a cookie...he'll ask for a glass of milk...that's happening right now as the Iranian government has turned down proposal after proposal, because the cookie of negocations (period, and not instant military action) wasn't good enough, now Iran want the to milk the situation until they get what they want - doing all they can to use fear to keep the EU in a corner, cowering like a frightened puppy.