Looks like ol’ Shirin’s figured out how the world works much better than the rest of us. American Revolution? Orange Revolution? Tulip Revolution? That’s just wrong!

The best means to help create democracies in societies ruled by tyrannies is through negotiations, and if that fails, by resorting to the United Nations,” she pontificated. “This is the only way, this is the only means.

Hear that, Babes of Beirut? You’re doing it wrong! Kindly send a copy of her memo in triplicate to Cuba’s civil society democrats, Venezuela’s angry oil workers, Ecuador’s furious street demonstrators, Bolivia’s pro-trade Santa Crucenos and Venezuela’s endangered ecological reservists. And I’m sure Iran’s disaffected youth will be simply delighted to hear this news.

Somebody’s prize went to her head.