The Bright Side of Ahamdinejad's “Win”  —  On the principle of “the worse the better” for our enemies-and, make no mistake, Iran is our enemy-it is possible to take some small degree of satisfaction from the outcome of Iran's elections.  —  If the mullahs were really canny, they would have let Mousavi win.

Insurrection: Day 2  —  The great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and wrote about dozens of revolutions in the course of his life.  He has, perhaps, seen more revolutions than anyone in the history of the world.  He knew, while he lived, revolutions better than anyone.

Ayatollahs Protest Election Fraud  —  [TEHRAN BUREAU] Mir Hossein Mousavi's, the main reformist rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, letter to the important ayatollahs in the holy city of Qom, asking them to protest the fraud and declare it against Islam, has sparked protests by the ayatollahs and clerics as well.

From hell to paradise for ex-Gitmo detainees  —  Four ethnic Uighurs adjusting to Bermuda, and life on outside  —  HAMILTON, Bermuda - After almost eight years of captivity, each step of Khelil Mamut's freedom is a little overwhelming.  —  The ocean, which he could hear only on windy days …

CNN producer: Iranian students say they're doomed if Obama accepts the Iranian election  —  Much depends on the meaning of “accepts,” though, doesn't it?  I'm sure we'll get some patented Hopenchange drivel tomorrow about “grave concerns,” etc, but if Iran's kids are expecting The One to walk away …

OUTRAGE!... CBS: “Meet Iran's George W. Bush” (Ahmadinejad!) ...  Update: Bush's Message to the Iranian People  —  CBS compares Iran's Holocaust denier, womens right's abuser, America-hating radical to George W. Bush.  —  CBS republishes vile New Republic article—  Meet Iran's George W. Bush

Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade  —  As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan's did in the 1990s.

Can Leon Panetta move the C.I.A. forward without confronting its past?  —  The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent.  A few miles from the agency's headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia …

Stimulus Concession  —  Biden tells “Meet the Press” that “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought.  —  Backs away from the estimate that the funds could create or save 3.5 million jobs, instead promises 600,000 by the end of the summer.

WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME OBAMA.... Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) appeared on ABC's “This Week” this morning — no, I'm not sure why he was invited on either — and was asked about developments in Iran.  Naturally, the one-time presidential candidate said President Obama bears responsibility for what's transpired.

Winds of Change?  —  Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introduction.  It was going to be very simple — just one page, indeed just one line: “Nothing has changed.”  —  It took me two days covering the elections in Beirut to realize that I was dead wrong.

The Real Results?  —  This is hearsay - but under conditions of a police state coup, we are best advised to glean what information we can, hold it provisionally, and test it as time passes.  Here's what Kos Diarist Electronic Maji is hearing from Iranian journalist friends under lockdown: