In 2000, the Republicans stole the election, and the U.S. taxpayers rolled over.
In 2009, Ahmadinejad stole the election, and the Iranian citizens took to the streets, some giving their lives to the cause of a free and honest election:
And the U.S. government tells its taxpayers that they are going to teach the Middle East about democracy.
This is not just the difference between payers and doers. U.S. taxpayers, who are so fond of calling themselves “Americans,” as if the entire hemisphere were not, in fact, America, are gutless, soulless, sexless, mindless consumers — contented cows giving milk to their moneyed class.