For Iran, soft-kill authoritarianism
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 10:42AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

POST: Iran limits ADSL bandwidth

ARTICLE: Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence, Robert Tait, The Guardian, October 18, 2006

Simple equation: the more we pursue policies that strengthen hard-liners, the more they will disconnect the masses from the outside world and thus the less our influence over Iran's evolution.


The rule: soft-kill authoritarianism with connectivity, but hard-kill totalitarianism with regime change--however achieved.


Thanks to Terry Collier and Jacob Heim for sending this in.

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