So basically you have no idea what I’m talking about and are telling me I’m wrong anyway.
LOL
You’re right, I was *not* addressing your main point (though that’s not evidence I have no idea what you were talking about). I was just addressing your blaming “Twelvers” for the state Iran is in. I seem to recall Bill O’Rielly a few years back making the same mistake of confusing the Ta’ajili — the fanatical minority sub-sect of Twelvers who run Iran — with Twelvers in general and it driving me up the wall when he did it.
Substitute the word Ta’ajili for “Twelvers” in your post, and not only do I understand what you were saying, I agree with you.
Yes, I know I’m a pain. I seem to have taken on the role of house orientalist at FR, probably because being an Antiochian Orthodox Christian, I’m a much more aware of the subtleties of Middle Eastern history and religion than most posters here.