Barack Obama came to power proclaiming "the audacity of hope". That audacity has been shown by the demonstrators on the streets of Iran this week. But what has President Obama, or the West, done to help them?
On many occasions, the Western world has sympathised with a popular revolt, but left it at that. In Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and China in 1989, we watched and listened anxiously – "Help Hungary… Help… Help… Help" were the last words of Radio Budapest before the Soviet Communists took it over – but let oppression resume.
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