Now this is what the world needs more of, desalinization plants ultimately powered by solar energy.

We need them in California and Africa and other places that are drought prone (and those places are usually good for solar power, too)

The West invaded Iraq and installed a democratically elected government and has gotten nothing but grief from it.

They are rising up, but unarmed protests cannot stop a totalitarian government willing to use as much force as necessary.

The only reason the revolution in 1979 happened was Jimmy Carter told the Shah not to crack down so hard.