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Yacked,

I would love to see the BLS cover Israel and Iran and the complications there.The world seems to be pivoting on these two countries right now. Thanks for sharing sweety.

Enough w the honey bro unless you are trying to kill these boards.

BLS - perhaps you all could do a show on the Israeli leaders who speak directly to the Iranian people via radio stations that reach far into Iran. Thanks honey.

Still stings huh?

Brian is a great host and has to weigh the whole freedom of speech thing versus the filibuster thing. In my opinion, anyone who doesn’t see this is delusional. Thanks Brian for the great conversation.

Fighting for a small step of change is surely better than NOT fighting at all.

Incremental change is what often occurs in the political process. It's doubtful that the majority of people of the Iran want a counter-revolution, most are probably protesting because they just want more freedoms, especially on the political participation front as well as a better economic situation.

By the way, for better or worse, Iranian polls have found that the majority of its citizens want to move forward on nuclear processing.

If reform includes 3 generations of voting rather than not voting, best to get started!

Voting for a shmuck is voting. Voting leads to so much that is good.

Western democracies assume that publics will elect liberals who will protect their rights. In reality, it’s a more complicated world. Hitler is the classic example of someone who came to power constitutionally, and then preceded to gut the constitution. Similarly, Ahmadinejad’s victory is a triumph of both democracy and repression.

Brian how about not cutting people off while they are speaking? You are so in a hurry to critize the President you cut the lady off mid sentence.

How was that a "slap" too far? Glad she said NO. Funny how people always tend disagree with you when you are slamming the President.

It seems that Iran may be a Palestine type of a situation. If (and that is a big if), if the Iranian elections were fair, then the Iranian people certainly have the right to democratically elect terrorists who publicly advocate the goal of genocide. And the United States and other countries have the right to appropriate respond to a democratically elected regime with nuclear and genocidal ambitions. Just like with Hamas, the people have spoken, and now the world will respond with our own values and needs.

Sometimes heart pounding lessons of Democracy come from the darndest places, don't they?