I love Rosenbaum, but am embarrassed for him when he shows his blind hatred for the Bush administration. Following is an exact quote from this week’s long review: “As the director has implied in interviews, it’s important to distinguish between Iranian people–their society, after all, is extremely multicultural–and their rulers, who are as dubious as ours” [“Don’t Judge a Film by Its Venue,” April 20].
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Iran has national elections, too. Some have questioned whether meddling at the polls placed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in office, but it’s my impression that we’ve had some meddling here too. In any case, my point was that it’s questionable whether Iran’s leaders (not just Ahmadinejad but the more powerful mullahs as well) represent Iranians any better than U.S. leaders (Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Wolfowitz, et al) represent Americans. According to the English press, when Ahmadinejad staged his despicable “seminar” about Holocaust denial, practically the only people who turned up were curious and/or outraged foreigners, including Americans; Iranians by and large ignored it.
