Leadership-- Iran and Elsewhere

Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish:

"It’s been funny to hear the leader of Iran talking about his nation’s natural right to exploit the secrets of nuclear physics and join the global technological vanguard. His basic argument is “You can’t stop progress” even though stopping progress, I recall, is the great goal of his theocracy. Fundamentalist Islamic futurism? Can such a strange cultural particle exist, even for a half an instant in a cyclotron? Perhaps the man should speak more carefully, lest he unwittingly split the nucleus of the system he’s trying to hold together. . ."

Good post. Catches up with China, too. Walter is the poster whilst Andrew holidays at undisclosed location.