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Any Alternatives to “Meddling” with Iran?
Commentary Magazine ^ | June 30th, 2009 | Emanuele Ottolenghi

Posted on 06/30/2009 7:53:16 AM PDT by Jbny

Fareed Zakaria enters the fray to explain why Iran’s Velvet Revolution is not about to happen. He makes some good points about why Iran 2009 is not Prague 1989 — the regime has money and guns and the religious establishment is not aligned behind the demonstrators. He also makes some less good points — that alleged U.S. support for armed groups fighting the regime, or U.S. rhetoric about a possible military strike, or U.S. support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war always rallied people around the regime.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: diplomacy; intervention; iran; revolution

1 posted on 06/30/2009 7:53:16 AM PDT by Jbny
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To: Jbny

a version of “Radio Free Middle East” would be good,. so folks get their news from other than al Jazeera

But then- not likely to happen under this group of marxists! Our own media is starting to sound just like al Jazeera.


2 posted on 06/30/2009 7:57:54 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: Jbny
Apparently you can do absolutely nothing and still believe that you lead the free world.
3 posted on 06/30/2009 8:05:20 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town
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To: Jim from C-Town

Heaven forbid that 0bomba do anything that impinges on a fraudulent government’s “sovereignty” in the name of the higher calling of Freedom.


4 posted on 06/30/2009 8:18:29 AM PDT by the Fun in Fundamentalist
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To: Jbny
"Let's just meddle with Honduras instead of Iran.
They're a lot smaller and will put up less of a fight.
Plus, we won't kill any muslims when we bomb them."


5 posted on 06/30/2009 8:20:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama as President is like hiring a mechanic who never saw a car before.)
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