Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech Wednesday in which she condemned Iran's crackdown on democracy protesters as "deplorable and unacceptable." What she didn't say was how U.S. policy might be used to help ordinary Iranians. In the 1980s, the Reagan Doctrine offered military assistance to rebel groups fighting communist repression. We may be glad that Iranian dissidents have remained nonviolent but we can still help them resist government repression. We should certainly help them get their story out.
In a world that is wired for instant transmissions of words, pictures and videos -- such as last month's shocking images of 26-year-old Neda Agha Soltan, shot dead in
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