Your wasting you time with this one xJ.
I had a back and forth with him the other day and all I got was how much the Iranians contributed to the modern world and how little everyone else was doing to help the Iranian populace.
It doesn't seem to dawn on him that it is they who need to enact change from within. He is of the 'help us clean up our self-made mess and then get out' crowd.
It doesn't seem to dawn on him that it is they who need to enact change from within.
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Your comment begs the question...why is your comment true of Iran but not Iraq?
Just a question.
They overthrew the Shah and his Savak in favor of the mullahs and their far worse minions, so if it they want out of that fire of their own making, let 'em do it like they did in 1979.
He seems to forget that they had a revolution a few years back that installed the Mullahs and alienated them from America. Not to mention keeping hundreds of American citizens hostage for over a year. NOW HE EXPECTS OUR SOLDIERS TO GO AND DIE TO OUST THE MULLAHS THEIR PARENTS PUT IN POWER!!! IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER REVOLUTION, THEY DID IT ONCE, AND THEY CAN DO IT AGAIN!!! UNTIL THE MULLAHS THREATEN THE U.S. DIRECTLY, THEY'RE LIBERATION IS NOT WORTH A SCRATCH ON ONE AMERICAN SOLDIER.
D2A (great screen name, btw!), I think even a cursory read of the history of Iran, even nothing more than, say, 1970 to 1979, would make it rather clear that the mess is anything but self-made. There were significant external influences pushing affairs along toward the overthrow of the Shah and the subsequent struggle for power that ultimately the mullahs won.
zEven Jimmy Carter has a bow or two to make for his contribution to this state of affairs, as has been noted in other FR articles.