December 27, 2009
Wishing Doesn't Make It So
NP: The Shield
As long as I'm recounting my pet peeves with Andrew Sullivan, he's overreacting to citizen journalism again in Iran. I don't doubt that what's going on there today is important, but when he speaks in such absolutes as "this has to be seen now as a crippling blow to the coup regime" as he reports on the protests there, it just sounds like he's desperately trying to conform those protests to what he wants to happen. Regime change may be inevitable, but my fear is that ratcheting up the urgency like this could actually do more harm than good, if it raises expectations to unreasonable level.
I don't know what the appropriate level of support is -- obviously, this is unprecedented in any number of ways -- but Sully's just feels out of whack to me. Maybe it serves some other, bigger purpose that I'm not seeing.
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