Where's the Outrage? Iran to Hang Teen Rape VICTIM

Those who would limit their moral outrage to the ways in which sovereign nations and their leaders treat other other sovereign nations and their leaders would do well to take a closer look at what goes on inside some of them. Last Spring we focused closely on the horrors of North Korea (e.g., 'Partial Birth Abortion: Too Tame for Kim Jong-il' - warning: graphic.) Alas, those horrors have not subsided. Now we turn our eyes to Iran:

An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.

Yes, you read that right.

What William F. Buckley, Jr. once said about the Soviet Union could be said about Iran today: they are not just a different team wearing a different colored jersey, with a different cultural perspective that we have to tiptoe around and say "ooh, that's nice, let's play ball". They are a nation led by evil men (and I emphasize men). In some contexts, that matters a lot to the feminist left. In this context, apparently, it does not.

As a Massachusetts resident, I'd be tempted to dash off a note to Ted Kennedy to stand up for this poor girl. Alas, he's too busy this week throwing baseless innuendo-by-association at Judge Alito for supposedly being a misogynist pig.

What would JFK have said and done? What about RFK? Really. Think about that for a moment.

What a small, sad thing it must be to be Teddy Kennedy- to have missed the vision and the charisma and been left with just the voice, the gestures and the power of superficial persuasion. Power directed at... nothing, really. Hell is truly a universe of one's own making...

On the Iranian hanging sadly, I'm not holding my breath for the press release from N.O.W.