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From totalitarian regimes you only get one side.

All was great and happy in the USSR right up until they imploded. The NAZI's were still blaring victory messages over the airwaves as US troops were crossing the Rhein and Berlin had already fallen.

The problem is that Iran appears to be calling the shots and on top of things. This is because their leaders are screaming loud, you hear no dissent, and our media is giving them the microphone. Our media can not move freely in Iran, and it goes back to the adage "If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, did it make any noise?"

People simply don't realize the degree of pressure we are putting on Iran. We have a TV channel that is blasting them and operated from the West coast. We had some of our special ops guys spotted in Iran in 2004 and one needs to remember, there are Kurds and other ethnic groups there as well. Iranian top intelligence officers have recently defected, Iran is finding itself getting economically strangled more and more. Everyone is running around with their hair on fire talking about Iran and asking "what are we going to do?" Truth is, Iran is already in a sort of sweat box. They are feeling the pressure much more than we are despite their leaders ripping their mouth open and telling us about the apocalypse they will soon deliver.

Well with that kind of analysis, I'm sure they stop whatever it is they are doing to warrant this "pressure" you're talking about...

I guess its the kind of pressure (sanctions) that makes the west (us) feel good about ourselves putting on them (Iran), and not do a whole helluva lot to them (Iran) in reality...

Don't get me wrong, but I have to ask the question...

Do you think anyone with any sense at all, would have a problem if some accident, or some kind of military strike were to manifest itself on their "stuff"??? (i.e. nuke sites, President Aminipajamamahd and his entourage, etc etc...)

I'm certainly going to go out and dance a jig if we ever got the stones to actually do it...

But I guess we'll make everyone happy if we just continue to apply pressure (sanctions), and be ever diplomatic to the end, since that makes everyone happy...

Because violence makes others unhappy, and mad, and go to the NYTimes and let everyone know they are unhappy, and that telling everyone at the U.N. in NYC that they are unhappy, and that gets everyone happy and applauding, and calling America all sorts of naughty names and stuff...

So I guess I am just trying to balance the whole happy, unhappy thing...

But still...

Maybe it would be neato if we just called a terrorist a terrorist, and deal with that like we should...And those that would be unhappy about that can go pound that stuff outside their doors called sand...

My money is on "nothing is going to happen", and those in this country who would be happy to pander to Pajamamahd, should be well documented so we know what we are dealing with over here domestically...

But thats for another topic and discussion...