And now? Now, it’s 6 months later – December 27, 2009 – and the government of Iran is shooting down its citizens in the streets of Tehran.

And the reaction in America?

Oh, maybe a few of us read the papers this morning, murmured some vague tsk, tsk, then turned the page to something less . . . distasteful.

Our administration, so full of big talk about justice and supporting oppressed peoples of the world when bullets aren’t flying, quietly averts its eyes says nothing, does nothing.

. . . exactly like the diners at Tavern on the Green in Ghostbusters.