Gas Rationing ... (wait for it... ) In Iran?

I don’t know about the ‘Arab Street,’ but according to Azadeh Moaveni, the ‘Iranian Bus’ thinks a U.S. Invasion might not be such a bad thing. Of course, the woman on the bus doesn't really mean it, but what U.S. citizen these days hasn’t wistfully imagined some Deus Ex Machina could magically cure us of our incompetent leadership? (As opposed, let’s be clear, to merely replacing it with new lying weasels next January.) Why should Iran be any different?

Look, I’m no Sharon Stone or anything like that, but maybe it’s karma that we get not only the government we deserve but the enemies we deserve, as well. How else to explain, for example, that the Iranian government controls bread loaf prices but not loaf sizes? Now there’s brilliant economic policy for you. Then, too, how else to explain their President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, possibly the only foreign leader George Bush might actually beat fair and square in a game of Trivial Pursuit, even the International Edition.

Anyway, the Moaveni piece is well worth a read. We are more than a generation away now from the fall of the Shah. Most Iranians today have no memories of the Pahlavis on the Peacock Throne or their SAVAK enforcers, but plenty of bad memories of life under the Ayatollahs. Maybe if we just left these people alone ....