Freedom

Incredible stuff coming out of Iran these days. There's such a power in the struggle for freedom: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/opinion/21tehran.html?_r=1. Something should ring true in that account, as that same spirit animated the American Revolution over 200 years ago. It is the struggle for freedom, for liberty, and the willingness to lay everything on the altar of sacrifice for a principle, for an idea, for an ideal.

Here's some more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/opinion/23iht-edcohen.html. I'm becoming a Roger Cohen fan. He seems to grasp this historical moment better than most.