Iranian election

[Alex]

I think we agree on the merits of them trying, just not on how excited and hopeful we should be about the current events.

I'm just trying to separate support for the popular unrest from endorsement of Mousavi. While he's probably incrementally better than Ahmadinejad rhetorically. On the subject of the three issues most important from a foreign relations perspective (acquiring nuclear weapons, recognizing Israel, fiddling with things in Iraq) things would remain mostly the same. Yes, it is great that he doesn't deny the Holocaust, it is more important (in my opinion) that he denies Israel.

But putting the fear of the people into the government would definitely be a good thing.