To: LinuxRocks
Those were Palestinians, not Iranians.
Iranians held candle light vigils.
I don't understand why we tend to think of the Middle East as one COUNTRY.
I've heard this 'dancing in the streets' on various occasions, when it was a group of 20 palestinians, somehow that came to represent 30+ countries.
To: freedom44
I don't understand why we tend to think of the Middle East as one COUNTRY. American Public Schools?
78 posted on
12/26/2003 11:09:59 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: freedom44
Funny, isn't it.
Iranians are Persians, not Arabs
Iran is not part of the Middle East
Iranians speak Farsi, not Arabic
Iranians are Shi'ites, not Sunnis.
1979 was the overthrow of a brutal dictator to be replaced by a brutal theocracy. America should not have supported the Shah any more than we supported Saddam but it was the cold war and the rules were different.
Bottom-line is that the Iranians are chanting pro-USA slogans in the streets. We need to do more to help them and humanitarian aid for a ctastrophe like this earthquake is a great way to start.
93 posted on
12/26/2003 12:23:47 PM PST by
wireplay
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