Why is terrorism by the strong called spreading democracy, terrorism by the weak called terrorism? Isn't Iran's support of Hizbollah essentially defensive, given it can be nuked at any moment by Israel. I repeat: Iran was attacked by Iraq and suffered first world war type losses. America has suffered a fraction of that, 3000 dead, on 911. Iran has the more virtuous victimhood.
America just doesn't give up persecuting them. They have every reason to fear and hate the west, and see the rank hypocrisy of America's support of unsavoury regimes elsewhere while focuing on the destruiction of in comparative terms a benign one whose big crime is to be independent of the US.
It is completely surrounded by nuclear powers, or US occuped ones. It saw Saddam destroyed because he didn't have nukes.
They see that America might attack them whether they have nukes or not (CIA shows them having no weapons programme.) They know tghey have oil, and that the US is run by a belligerent, hostile, much hated president worldwide.
Wouldn't you want nukes then?
I think we should relax; Iran will be responsible with nukes, knows it will be obliterated if it ever uses them.
I don't know anout Iran's mischiefmaking in Iraq. As said: terrorism is the power of the weak. Make them responsible partners rather than force them to resort to underhand protective measures.
I just distrust anything that comes from the mainstream media and the government. The BBC is dutifully reporting government planted stories that I fear are preparing the groundwork for being able to say that British jetfighters bombed Tehran this morning....little collateral damage.
If that happens, it would be an utter disgrace on this country and curse it forever.
The Iranians might say their meddling in Iraq is straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel....US direct action has murdered an estimated 200,000 Iraqis. You'd keep tabs omn your chaotic neighbour too, if you were Iranians.
Elsewhere I have read that the Iraqi shia are pretty independent of the Iranians.
Sun Tzu said, know your enemy and you will win a hundred battles. America patently doesn'yt know anything about the Middle East except the big oil govt knows it has oil and the stupid populus who dance to the pipers' tune know they are facing another "Hitler".
How many Americans come onto these talkboards and quote Churchill and his fight against fascism, to everyone's embarrassment; they are living in groundhog day too and cannot even remember three years back; it's so absurd to have this giant with a pinhead brain running our destinies.
Funny though isn't it, that China, with its expanding influence in Africa, its nukes, its giant prison camps, its murder of Falun Gong. Hu Jintao is never called Hitler.
Iran is not perfect, we agree, but sometimes you have to exaggerate to face the garbage coming from the other direction.
America must talk to Iran. And someone must drill into that idiot country's head that history and politics is complicated, and requires complex, pragmatic, multivariate solutions. You can't just going around behaving like a drunken football jock trashing other's people's homes.
I look forward to hearing what the EU has to say on this.