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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We cannot concern ourselves of what future type government the Iranian people want.
The only government we should not accept is the same one that declared war on the US 47 years ago. This is now the longest war in US history.
The fact of the matter is, being “Free” means responsibility. And it is a proven fact that many peoples around the world find the responsibility and uncertainty of being “Free” more onerous than living in a semi-totalitarian or full totalitarian society.
That is, they would rather live in poverty and oppression rather than accepting the uncertainty and responsibility of freedom.
Sad, but true. And it is why this country is so great to live in.
Let’s see, my friend Mansour, the folks that ran a chain of restaurants in Nashville, my former across the street neighbors, and the guy who’s name I forget from Logitech.
These are all Iranians that I personally talked with about life in Iran. They all said “Iran was a much better place under the Shah. If the mullahs were to be killed and we could go back to the way things USED to be, we’d gladly go back”.
So, this story sounds like BS to me.
Most Christians think everyone else is going to face incessant, continual torture, with a loving God with unbounded grace, angrily yelling “I told you so...”. Even the smart ones like Willian Lane Craig get brutally stupid trying to defend this nonsense. Sorry, you believe that medieval nonsense, and you are a useless eater.
Who writes Townhall’s stuff? National Review?
Great article. Why would anyone NOT want to be forced to cover her entire body head to toe whenever she goes outside? Who WOULDN’T want to be beaten to a pulp by her husband for cooking an untasty meal? Who WOULDN’T want his or her hand chopped off for stealing a Snickers bar? Who WOULDN’T want to be beheaded for missing a call to prayer. All that freedom stuff is over-rated.
No way the people are waiting to be told to come out, at the moment the bombing is too intense.
Yeah, those 35000 people just wanted to be murdered for no reason at all.
The deep state dept was pushing woke craziness on the Afghans. No wonder it was rejected.
RE: reply to some Iranians were born after 1979 so don’t know what freedom means.
Sounds trivial from me but the Iranians were said to be resentful that the people on MTV videos in the 80s and 90s had freedom that Iranians were not allowed.
Once the internet and social media arose, Iranians know exactly what non-theocratic rulers permit from their subjects around the world.
“People will never feel freedom as long as governments still exist.”— Robert J. Ringer.
1. Can’t tell without an honest and free election.
2. A bit of forgotten history. Back in the 1980s, the secular candidates actually won a parliamentary election; but the mullahs, invoking the Islamic constitution forced on the nation, invalidated the election of the anti-clerical candidates.
Wow. It looked like Iran only smaller! Thanks for showing me that it was nowhere like the war ravaged mess it is today 😞
True. I fight my misogyny all the time.
Old reclusive woman in the movie The Happening who didn’t have a TV, internet, a phone or even one radio in her isolated home in the empty wasteland.
She stopped Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel from filling her in on the deadly crisis killing thousands in the cities.
“The world doesn’t care about me. I don’t care about the world.”
I know. Women. At a university.
90% of them want to be free.
Iraq WAS that. Iran is not.
Freedom to do what. exactly?
Iranians know what being free to practice their religion means.
They don’t have to be, just stop killing the rest of the world’s people.
Exactly! I believe one of President Trump's objectives is to create a situation where the Persians have a decent shot at overthrowing the Ayatollahs and form a decent government, but it's up to them to do that. We hope they will, but I don't want our ground troops in there trying to "nation build".
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