Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Joan Vennochi was on

"The Jeff Santos Show" today bemoaning the political eclipse of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Meanwhile, from out the shadows Ms. Clinton had this to say about Iran...
This is a worrisome pronouncement, absent verbal mishap, the US Secretary of State rarely uses the word "coup" in a diplomatically tinged sentence unless something bad was cooking.
Of course the situation in Iran does have some loose historic parallels, recall please that Argentine President Hypolito Yrigoyen was deposed in a coup in 1930 engineered by the disaffected right and supported by the usual suspects in the military.
Some ten years later with the country in dissaray the Army decided it didn't need the conservative right to rule Argentina and so the rightists were swept out and the stage was set for the star of Broadway and the movies, Juan Peron.
I wonder if something akin to that might be happening in Iran among their Revolutionary Guards contingents.
Just thinking out loud y' unnerstan'.

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