The boss writes at the Washington Post's Post Partisan blog:
On September 2, 1939, in the wake of Hitler's invasion of Poland, the British House of Commons met to rush through a military service bill. But the House was stunned when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said he wasn't ready to ask for a declaration of war, that he was still working on a time limit for Hitler to respond to demands that the German army withdraw from Poland. As the Labour Party's Arthur Greenwood rose for the Opposition, the anti-appeasement Conservative Leo Amery dramatically called out from the Tory backbenches: "Speak for England."
This isn't September 1939. But the developments in Tehran are a potentially big moment, signaling the possible transformation or at least reformation of the Iranian regime. American principles and American interests argue for support of the Iranian people in this crisis.
And where is the American president? Silent.
Read the rest here.
