Azar Nafisi agrees

The current "debate" over whether to go to war with Iran basically consists of all sides agreeing, in strangely urgent language, that it would be disastrous. Finally, something to bring the world together! Next week, let's hold an international conference on whether the sky is blue (making sure that we are discussing a Platonically cloudless day, and that the blue in no way resembles the national color of the Zionist entity).

Still, if someone needs to reiterate the dangers of invading Iran, it should be Azar Nafisi. He's the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," and certainly no friend of the Iranian regime. Here's what he has to say:

"Under such conditions, who would benefit from a military attack on Iran? Not the workers, students, minorities, women or the dissenters who have been trying to find nonviolent and democratic ways of resisting and changing the present system.

Such an attack would provide an excuse for the most reactionary and violent elements within the ruling elite to stifle any voice of dissent not just from within the civil society, but from the divided and factional ruling elite. It would help rally factions within that elite behind Ahmadinejad, and it would provide Iran a good excuse to attempt to further isolate the United States within the international community."

Well said. Our best hope is the Iranian people, who deserve a better government than this bunch.