[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[ravi]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote:
> Well, if we're looking to stretch the analogy, we would have to  
> imagine a
> 2000 in which:
> (1) Bush was already President and had instituted a level of internal
> repression harsher than that found in Cheney's wet dreams.
> <...>

Does it matter whether Bush is analogous to Ahmadinejad? My question  
was whether Mousavi is the equivalent of Al Gore, or of a socialist or  
civil-rights leader like MLK (Dabashi's comparison (or hope?)).

	--ravi