Irany

[howeird]

After the shah was deposed, there was a poster which looked something like this:



Just sayin' - politics in Iran have never been predictable or peaceful. Don't see what all the fuss is about, it's business as usual there.

Comments

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Well, there are obviously those who disagree. I think it's called "hope."

[howeird]

Hope for whom? The current regime was put into power by a popular revolution.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Hope for some sort of progress towards a less bone-headed way of changing governments?

You seem to be saying that it's not worth bothering to notice because those people are always doing that. I can't work out whether you think that's because they're foreigners, or because of their religion, or indeed whether you're just saying that to provoke an argument. Whichever it is, I think you're wrong.

[howeird]

I'm just being my cynical self and pointing out that even those who remember history are doomed to repeat it. After I posted it, I perused my memory for other popular revolutions which overthrew the incumbents, and here's what I came up with:
USA : Win
France: Win
India: Win
Russia: Lose
Cuba: Lose
China: Lose
Iraq: Lose
Spain: Hmmm. I don't really know how Spain got to be a parliamentary monarchy.
Vietnam: Mostly Fail
Cambodia: Chillingly Total fail (which the Vietnamese army put an end to, later helped by UN diplomacy)
East Germany: Win
Philippines: Mostly win

I know there have been some South American countries which have become democratic, but I can't recall any which got that way via popular revolt, they seem to have arrived there through a series of coups which eventually opted for elections.

I expect there are other examples in both directions.

[howeird]

Thanks. I didn't think Hemingway's war did it, but I wasn't sure.