Mr. Khawaja, a Danish citizen, has been on a hunger strike for more than two months, and his declining health has brought international appeals for intervention.
Appeals for intervention in Congo are utterly unrealistic.Appeals to the governments of the neighbours sucked into Congo's war may, however, be less so.
But Ayatollah Khamenei closed the door to any appeals for intervention in a statement issued on state television on Saturday afternoon, congratulating Mr. Ahmadinejad on his victory and pointedly urging the other candidates to support him.
Peacekeepers in Kiwanja did not prevent a massacre of dozens last week.The European Union, which has two 1,500-strong 1,500-strong ready to deploy within days, has battlegroups appeals foreadyerventoon.
Then, most judges averted their eyes, dismissing appeals for intervention as the regime's opponents were dragged off to secret prisons, sometimes never to return.That record, and other judicial misdeeds, are the subject of an unflattering new book ("The Black Book of Chilean Justice"), published in April.
But Mr. Kerry provided no hint that the refugees' appeal for military intervention would ever be answered.
Perhaps everyone else realised (though it was a revelation to me) that Winston Churchill's "fight them on the beaches" speech was intended to be an appeal for American intervention as well as a call for indomitable resistance.
Some of his backers resorted to urging prison workers to strike or call in sick Wednesday, and they considered a desperate appeal for White House intervention.
But if these elections were truly representative, they could put officials in place who would be more responsive to the local populace, reducing the need for public protests, and making it less necessary to appeal to Beijing for intervention.
