Charles Krauthammer along with Tom Sowell is a one of the best observers on the scene.
Satellite communication means that revolutions are on display in a way that the Soviet invasion of Czech never was. Indeed this is the Global Village that McLuhan described in the 1960s, no not HIlary's village.
The US no matter what your position has spent billions of dollars and several thousand lives to bring change to the mid east, The biggest possible change would be real democracy in the one regime that is the most threatening Iraq.
As Krauthammer says, will Mousavi rise to he challenge? There were numerous revolutions, some big time in the past century the shooting in Yugoslavia that got WW I going, the collapse of the czars in Moscow in 1917, but none of that was on television and You Tube, it is now. Will a Yeltsin or the Polish shipyard worker rise to the occasion? A revolution in Iran would solve all the problems that both we and their neighbors in that region would favor.
Meanwhile of course America is mourning the 'best known person in he world' weird Mike Jackson.
What a diversion....