Budapest, 1956. Prague, 1968. Gdansk, 1981. Tianenmen Square, 1989. Tehran, 2009. Each of these surprise flashpoints in history’s long march against totalitarianism proved as dazzling at its outset as it did hopeless at its extermination. Each of them left a trail of broken bodies, but the last was different than all its historical forebears in one way: the president of the … [Read more...]
Deadly Silence
July 30, 2009 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: Foreign policy, FrontPage Magazine, Iran, Obama administration, War on Terror Tagged With: 1979 Iranian Revolution, 2009 Iranian elections, Barack Obama, Basij, Behesht-e Zahra, Ben Johnson, Foreign policy, FrontPage Magazine, FrontPageMag.com, George H.W. Bush, Honduras, Iran, John McCain, Kihrizak prison, Lindsay Graham, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karoubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Khatami, Mohsen Rouhalamini, NATO, Neda Agha Soltan, News, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Shah Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi, The Washington Post, Tom Hayden, U.S. State Department
