[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Here’s a great idea. Let’s wait around and find out.[/quote]
This sounds familiar. Iraq’s mushroom cloud circa 2003? How did that work out? Obama has hardly been “an appeasing weakling” either. He has authorized over 4 times the amount of drone strikes that Bush did in half the time. To devastating effect I might add, Al Qaeda’s leadership has been decimated. In reality, Obama is an International Relations Liberal in speech and an IR Realist in practice.
*Note the “Liberal” in IR does not mean the same as Liberal in American politics, in fact, Bush was considered an IR Liberal in many aspects of the Bush Doctrine.[/quote]
You really are not current with what is happening in the world. Obama has had to rely heavily on drone strikes to kill terrorists instead of taking them prisoner because of his fear that the left will whine about their civil rights and tarnish his image. His weakness and ideology has painted himself into a corner where he has not other option. In the process we have killed a lot of people who didn’t need killing and lost valuable intelligence.
Many study here abroad, get paperwork to be exempt from military service.
According to this, 16% of Iranians are non-immigrant and here for work or study.
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16%? So, that would mean that the other 84% are immigrants? i.e. ‘most’ of them. Also, many who arrive for ‘work or study’ end up applying for permanent residency/citizenship.
â??Itâ??s just going to make everything harder â?? just translating my documents, renewing my passport and this stuff,â?? said a 27-year-old mechanical engineering student from the University of Ottawa who moved from Tehran eight years ago and preferred not to give his name. â??Iâ??m just a student. I donâ??t want to get involved in all these politics between two countries. Itâ??s affecting regular people who donâ??t have anything to do with it.â??
Well if some of them want the embassy closed and some of them don’t, how will we know which ones to appease? You wouldn’t want to anger the ones who want it closed would you?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Furthermore Canada seems to have no problem keeping embassies in Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan.
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‘Explosions and gunfire rocked Kabul as suicide bombers struck across the city. The Canadian embassy was locked down, with staffers moved to a secure area soon after shooting erupted nearby at about 2 p.m. local time, a source inside the Canadian embassy said Sunday…’
Uh huh.
‘On April 5, 1992 the [Iranian] embassy [in Ottawa] was stormed by a group of Iranian exiles linked to the MEK…’
You wouldn’t want to anger those Iranians who want the embassy closed would you raj?