Reply #6: Purposely Naive...But That's Our Ari...

[KharmaTrain]

You can always count on this turd with ears to spew a spin that is so simplistic it's raw meat for the wingnuts and the corporate media while the rest of us see it for the manure it is.

Ahmaddinejad won over the "reformers" because of the "axis of evil" of his ex-boss georgie boooosh. All back channels were shut, even when Iran was cooperative in the days following 9/11. The 1979 mindset was to use Iran as another convenient boogieman...memories (especially of the wingnuts) of 1979 and the hostage crisis still run deep and the boooosh regime was as much about settling past scores as it was in "reforming".

Just like booooshie overplayed his hand...blew out the economy and discredited his entire regime, so has Ahmadinejad. In Iran's limited political system, real reform took the face of another right winger...one who claims not to be as extremist, but that isn't that hard to be. Ahmadinejad lost support of the young (a major force emerging inside Iran) but the power is still very much in the cleric, right wing hands. Either way, to improve and try to bring the country together, whomever emerges as the winner will have to appear to be less confrontational...playing into opening dialogue with the U.S. It's 180 degrees from what Ari and his neo-con asshats had predicted...but then they have never been right.