1. | Aug 16, 2012

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2. | Aug 14, 2012

Just finished wctahing it. A few comments: Flynt wins the best line award, commenting on the usual response to reasoned argument about Iran: I didn't know laughter was an argument. Flynt wasn't even in the running, however, for the Most Ironic Comment, which Mr. Ledeen made in response to the moderator's question whether US support for the Greens should be overt or covert : I've always been in favor of overt.' I think covert' is not an American policy. For any of you who thought Mr. Ledeen might have had a hand in some covert hanky-panky in the past take that! The award for saying I think the most times also goes to Mr. Ledeen, hands-down. I'd guess he said it 100 times, apparently assuming that many in the audience cared a great deal about that. Several times a self-deprecating preface was included, as in I don't know, but I think Sometimes, his certainty was based on other senses as well: I can smell it, he assured us, referring to the rotten core of the Iranian regime, and I can feel it, referring to its inevitable demise. He did not mention tasting it, but who could doubt that: it was clearly an all-five-senses sort of certainty he was conveying to his audience.Flynt fell way short here also, far too intent on laying out facts and sound arguments. We learned a few things from Mr. Ledeen: (1) The color green has been outlawed in Iran. He praised himself for wearing green to the debate, and expressed considerable pride in living in a country that still allows that (a pride I am sure we all feel, and I can assure that I, for one, am not waiting for St. Patrick's Day to wear my bright green socks). Flynt allowed as how he hadn't noticed the anti-green police during his recent trip to Iran, and mentioned that green still seems to be one of the colors in the Iranian flag. (Ledeen's brow furrowed a bit at that: I think he's going to think of a way to deal with that anomaly next time he mentions this anti-green law.)(2) Women in Iran are worth legally, half a man. Ledeen didn't think that was fair implying, of course, that Flynt did, but Flynt assured him it wasn't so.(3) Mr. Ledeen reminded the audience that he had been right to predict the downfall of the Soviet regime 20 years ago (in fact, he mentioned that roughly one time for each year which has passed since then) which means, of course, that he must also be right when he predicts that the same thing will soon happen in Iran.(4) Mr. Ledeen said he's heard from reliable sources (is there any other kind?) that not a single Green leader has even been contacted, much less helped, by any Western government. As an American taxpayer, I'd like to know: What in the heck is our government doing with that $400 million a year that Congress budgeted for the overthrow of the Iranian regime? Sounds like we're not getting much bang for our buck.(5): Mr. Ledeen seems to be a nicer guy than I'd thought, but someone who ought not to be taken very seriously. He's past his prime, pretty much out of the loop, and doesn't have the raw intellectual power, nor a clear enough grasp of foreign policy at a strategic level, to be worth listening to. (6) Bottom line, with all due respect to Flynt, wctahing this was not worth the time spent. I didn't learn anything I didn't already know I even knew already that the color green had been outlawed in Iran (I think Rush Limbaugh taught me that!)

3. | Jun 26, 2012

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