CNN's coverage has devolved to nerd-talk about how great Twitter is and the B-Squad they've had on today don't seem to notice that there is a near total lack of real information about events in Iran. They could be doing the red carpet at the Grammys for all the heft they bring to this job. At the same time we read that Walter Cronkite is in "grave condition." In more ways than one.
I just finished reading Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes, a history of the CIA. It was the CIA overthrow of a democratically elected prime minister in Iran in 1953 and the installation of the Shah that has Obama watching what he says right now. As someone said the other day, almost no American knows this history and almost no Iranian doesn't. You have to wonder what the boys and girls in Langely are up to tonight.
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