Hope and Change but Not for Iran

See Charles Krauthammer Washington Post Friday, June 19, 2009 column "Hope and Change -- but Not for Iran" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803495_pf.html
It includes:
 "The [Iran] demonstrators are fighting on their own, but they await just a word that America is on their side."
 "Three days in, the president [Barack Obama] makes clear his policy: continued "dialogue" with their clerical masters."
 President Obama "speaks favorably of 'some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election'."
 "people aren't dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators."
 "What's at stake now is the very legitimacy of this regime -- and the future of the entire Middle East. This revolution will end either as a Tiananmen (a hot Tiananmen with massive and bloody repression or a cold Tiananmen with a finer mix of brutality and co-optation) or as a true revolution that brings down the Islamic Republic."
 "Now, with Hezbollah having lost elections in Lebanon and with Iraq establishing the institutions of a young democracy, the fall of the Islamist dictatorship in Iran would have an electric and contagious effect. The exception -- Iraq and Lebanon -- becomes the rule. Democracy becomes the wave. Syria becomes isolated; Hezbollah and Hamas, patronless. The entire trajectory of the region is reversed."
 "That's our fundamental interest. And our fundamental values demand that America stand with demonstrators opposing a regime that is the antithesis of all we believe."