Posted on 03/17/2026 8:16:52 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
If you’ve never experienced liberty before, you don’t know what it is. It’s not the natural state of humanity. Most of human history is riddled with oppression. A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
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Harriet Tubman saved 1000 southern slaves. She said it couda' been 2000 if they knew they were slaves. It just might be unmanageable tribal conflicts that can't be fixed. That's why it takes heavy handed tyrants to rule these places. Japan had thousands of years of structure and education-easier to see the light.
On the other hand, we were in Afghanistan for twenty years, and look what happened in the end.
“The natural state of man is war.”
~ Thomas Hobbs
Which is why “Regime Change” is not a Strategic Objective of Trump’s.
We need to change military facts on the ground.
“Freedom” is up to the Persians, if they’re up to it.
It takes a special brand of hubris, naivete, and retardation to think the U.S. can establish and build a Jeffersonian style of republican government in a Third World sh!t-hole.
THE END.
Nonsensical. There are millions that remember what life used to be like in Iran before the Mullah’s.
The younger generations would not only hear this - but are able to see and consume content from the rest of the world.
Islam was forced on them, a radical version too. The natural revolt was and is inevitable. They’ve even burned down Mosque’s.
You’re a class joke. Perid
Who says they need to have US style freedom?
They can have a Shah.
Yes. Biden’s abrupt withdrawal - zero transition.
We don’t really care what kind of government they establish. Well... That is, I Don’t.
As long as they’re not building nukes and killing infidels. I don’t care what kind of dictator they put in place to keep the muslim crazies from taking over.
Yes, but the people of Afghanistan never really experienced freedom. The people of Iran still remember what their country was like before the Mullahs took power.
No boots on the ground. It’s been demonstrated we can bomb them back into the Stone Age with a minimum loss of life.
The next time we’ll have to take out their entire infrastructure and conclude a Taliban style government is all that works. Trump is actively working to fill the oil vacuum.
Did you forget the protests just a couple months ago? The protests when Obama was president? There is a large segment of that Iranian population that wants it. The Iranian expats are vocal about it as well.
We don’t need them to be free, just unable to harm us.
Still waiting to see if the Iranian people will rise up and overthrow the regime. I suspect that the hatred of Israel and the US has only gotten stronger over the past two weeks, however.
Afghanistan in the late 60s/early 70s were fairly modern.
I say we declare victory and leave.
Nations which sell the Hormuz oil can step up and get the straight opened.
Islam needs contained and Muslims controlled by a strongman. It is the natural state of a low IQ inbred tribal system. The only concern we should have is containing any ambitions outside the country after we remind them to keep it in their borders after pounding them with bombs and missiles. We keep hearing the Iranians want freedom and are educated. Are they? The vast majority of the population was born and raised under the mullahs. Anyone in those pictures pre “revolution” in swimsuits and parties are long dead or in their 70s.
Its a silly article.
The same argument could be made about 1/2 of Americans, who would sell out their entire lives for free government viagra and continued Netflix.
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