Let me retell a story I heard from a prominent foreign-policy analyst recently. He has a friend, or an acquaintance, who's a French expert in Islam, and he — the friend — was talking before an Iranian audience. A woman stood up and said, "We have but one friend in all the world." The expert thought, "Uh-oh: Here comes some paean to Jacques Chirac or something." The woman continued: "That friend is the United States of America. They liberated you in 1944; why won't you help them liberate us?"
"Iranians like Americans" ping