Jun 24 2009
Weakness Hawkish elements
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Opinion
NY Times Room for Debate
June 23, 2009, 3:22 PM
Weakening Hawkish Elements
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist and a former professor of journalism at Princeton University.
No matter how the standoff in Iran ends up, two things have become clear. The power of digital technology can override analog government efforts of suppression, and the shakeup in Iran has weakened a host of hawkish elements in the region.
The Iranian people, a majority of whom are young, have discovered, developed and perfected every possible available means of communications. All the attempts by a brutal regime, like the one currently in power in Iran, have proved incapable of totally and completely gag ging their own population from being heard.
Continue Reading »