The cruel irony of timing and martyrs

It would be a cruel irony if, in an effort to avoid imposing democracy, the United States were to tip the scale toward dictators who impose their will on people struggling for freedom. And if we appear so desperate for negotiations that we will abandon those who support our principles, we weaken our own negotiating hand.

Today, Hortensia Bussi, the former wife of Chile's President Salvador Allende died, who's husband died on 9/11/1973, after 3 years of trying to make a Socialist government work, was over thrown by an American supported dictator. The irony of Neocon Paul Wolfowitz writing an Op Ed about government intervention in another country to support "our principles" on the day that Allende's widow died. It is ironic that when tyrants are supported by the United States to over throw legibility elected officials yet they never followed an subservient US friendly foreign policy during the Cold War, as happen in Iran in 1953 and twenty years later in Chile in 1973. The blow back effect in Iran lead to the 1979 revolution and put into place the present government, one of the countries making up the trifecca of the Axis of Evil. Of course some Neocon would be fond of the heavy handed, Cold War politics of CIA intervention of the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations.
I think that it is great what is going on in Iran and the only outcome that people are predicting is nothing, nobody knows where the current uprising will lead to. My heart goes out to all of those in Iran fighting a repressive and closed society. Bill Maher had Hooman Majid, who is an author and has a great clip on Amazon's site about life in Iran.
History and life are full of cruel ironies. That in this hesphere, two countries were subjected to attacks on 9/11 which changed everything overnight in their respective nations. That as a reaction to a puppet government the United States supported in Iran, was overthrown by a cabal of religious zealots who now run the country of Iran. Those very people who are scrambling to resolve a revolutionary uprising who no one has and idea where all this activity is going to end and the consequences of it.

Update

The President has come out speaking against the Iranian government with his usual clear thinking and insightful comments, just what the world expects of the leader of the United States.

Throughout the Iranian crisis, Mr. Obama has tried to strike a difficult balance. On one hand, he has carefully modulated his response to minimize the chances that the Iranian government will cast the conflict as one driven by meddling from the United States, and to avoid closing off the possibility of talks with Iran over curbing its nuclear program, a signature element of his foreign policy since his election.
Wolfowitz's and his ilk will never see the wisdom of Obama playing the middle and reacting in a way to portray the right message, being tough but leaving enough wiggle room so that some diplomacy can take place.
Stats for the crack down in Iran...102 political figures, 23 journalists, 79 university students and 7 university faculty; the human rights organization said. By official reckonings, at least 17 demonstrators have been killed.
Unfortunately for the present government of Iran, one of those 17 deaths was an 27 year old Iranian named Neda whose death had been captured when a snipper bullet hit Neda in her chest and the clip shows her bleeding out, dying in two minutes. In a part of the world where martyrs and part of the culture, this death and this person become a rallying point for the revolutionaries. With the world being connected to the Internet, this image of this young, beautiful girl's death has been witnessed by the world! The death of a young woman, an student showing her solidarity for her cause will continue to have an impact on the Iranian situation.
Allende was a martyr too, but his "suicide" and a ruthless fascist government locking the population down, the people couldn't resist the way the Iranians are going to. The world is watching.
Frontline is one of the best things on TV and thanks to the internet, one of the best things to watch for hard hitting, unbais current issue reporting. Frontline did a show called A Death in Iran, it tells Nada's story and helps her legacy as a marytr for the cause against tryants in Iran.