What Have the “Poor Innocent Mullahs” Ever Done?

On Euphoric Amnesia, Proxy Warfare, and the Retreat from Moral Imagination

It is a strange spectacle indeed to see men and women of standing marshal their indignation against those who challenge the rulers of Tehran, while that regime — which has imprisoned its own citizens, armed proxies across continents, and turned repression into statecraft — is granted the courtesy of moral hesitation.

Fifty years of terror at home, and th…