Instapundit offers a round-up of bloggers who are wondering aloud why the anti-ayatollah protests in Iran aren’t garnering more attention on the Left. The answer, it seems to me, is because a democratic revolution in Iran is something George W. Bush wants, and therefore it must be opposed by “liberals.” It’s this aspect of the post-9/11 debate that’s depressed me more than any other: the notion that the Left is incapable of supporting drives for even the most fundamental human rights if that means they’d end up on the same side of a given issue as the Bushies.
