Those are YOUR mindsets, without mnuch room in the battered, smashed, crushed psyche of the oppressed Iranains who are trying not to starve.Work but as often as not do not get paid for months at a time and wonder howthey will feed their families.
short of joining the huge numbers delving into trash dumpos.
And in fear of joining the HALF MILLION homeless children living in the streets just in Tehran. And the tens of thousands of women also forced to live on the streets as they can neither fin dwork, have been thrown out by irate husbans to fend for theselves and have no social safety network like we do in the West.
Easy to offer high sounding attributes when you do not face daily hunger, misery and stress that to a degree not even our troops face. Or if they do they have some training and there is an evac copter to be found with some med attention.
I understand your high minded appproach but you are not even on the same planet as these people.
Not because they did not once have honor and a sense of pride but because their living daylights have been knocked systematically out of them for the last 25 years.
I don’t know how tough you are but I wonder if you could take that and still be who you are today. I doubt if I could and I have been there and done that and barely survived.
Easy to to quarterback when you are not being burned up in the fire. Emotional and often real flames of torture.
cheers,
This error of equating what goes on in your mind within your environment (even in Iraq) does not tally with reality of the mindsets and psyche of those who have no energy or reserve left for high falluting
There was a former Iranian judge and author, a woman, now living in exile, whose name I forget, who wrote in an article I read shortly after the US Military occupied Bagdad.
In the article, she wrote about being in a coffee shop in Tehran watching the images on the television of American marines patrolling the streets of Bagdad.
She wrote of watching women, unaccompanied by male relatives, clad in western attire, walking by the Marines, who bowed respectfully or tipped their helmets.
She wrote that she wished that she could see American Marines on the streets of Tehran.