Tiananmen Square or the Berlin Wall?

Or will it end not with a bang but a whimper? Oh may the Iranian demonstration not die a slow death!

Here is praying that Iran will creep toward democracy. At least let's hope that the rigged election will be thrown out and the voters can go to the polls again. Moussavi might not be that much better than Ahmadinejad, but at least the former, not the latter, is the choice of the people -- vox populi. Iran is a sort of democracy -- even though it is a theocracy.*

(* Could it be that Allah wants the will of the people as His will?)

And I guess I'm sold on democracy, sloppy and imperfect as it is. The Ayatollah might be regretting not making it an absolute dictatorship, letting the people think they really have a say in their government.

Kurt Vonnegut, in Mother Night, writes, "We are what we pretend to be, so we ought to be careful what we pretend to be."

Let it be so. May Iran "fake it to make it."