[JohnGalt]

Thank you for illustrating my point.

Freedom is not an exportable commodity; Iranians can no more handle American freedom than Americans would care to handle Chinese 'freedom.'

In China, for example, families are 'free' to murder their newborn babies should they not like the sex of the child; in America, we do not consider that a freedom (yet, anyway) we would like to have.

[Cincinatus]

Freedom is not an exportable commodity; Iranians can no more handle American freedom than Americans would care to handle Chinese 'freedom.'

How did the Japanese handle "American" freedom after 1945?

[hchutch]

Thank you for exposing what your really seem to think about some of these people.

You prove just what I have suspected about the paleos all along. They seem to think some folks can't handle freedom due to an accident of birth that has them living in Tehran as opposed to New York.

On the other hand, neo-conservatives happen to have the strange notion that Thomas Jefferson meant what he wrote when he said "all men are created equal" and had inalienable rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" - rights that came from God, not any government.

You grossly underestimate those people. Take a look at Eastern Europe and Japan if you want to see how wrong you are about how well people can handle freedom.