How could we have been so myopic?

Robert Tait–who lived in Iran for some time–ends this article on the farcical Ahmedinejad re-election with the line "How could we have been so myopic?" I love how he starts:

With hindsight, we should have seen it coming. Why should a man who has bluffed, blustered, twisted, intimidated and–let's not dignify it with higher prose–lied his way through his four-year term of office surrender power to the whim of anything so mundane as a ballot box?

There's a great comment from AJM1969: "Nutters, you just can't trust 'em. Someone tell Obama, quick."