[quote]pat wrote:
orion wrote:
hedo wrote:
Gkhan wrote:
lixy wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
My concern with Iran is their potential forced exportation of their way of life.
So…you’re willing to gloss over thousands of petro-dollar Wahabi mosques built around the world, and get more concerned about the “potential” of Iran.
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Can’t you make a post without bashing the US, the West and the US allies?
He can’t and never has. Easier to simply ignore him.
Sure, because the idea that Saudi Arabia that is a complete and ugly dictatorship, raised the overwhelming majority of the 9-11 gang and finances the most radical mosques in the Muslim world is somehow less of a “threat” than a country that at least has somewhat fair and impartial institutions and has not waged a war of aggression since Dareios the whatever is, like totally, plausible.
This needs no discussion whatsoever, like the assumption that everything that is perceived as a threat by the most emasculated and pussified generation of Americans this world has seen so far, needs some solid bombing.
A spoiled, weak, semi literate demos, corrupt politicians and a president that answers to no one.
Yeah, that is what the world yearns for, please, export THAT at gunpoint.
Anybody here think Saudi Arabia is a good place with a good government? Just raise your hand if you support the saudi regime…[/quote]
Hmmm…good point, but this is not about how good the place or the government are. That’s a highly subjective matter) and plenty of Saudis think it’s a good place, just as the French think France is a good place or you getting all mushy about the great US of A.
Anyway, read closer GKhan’s post and you’ll see that he seems to suggest the Saudi exporting their way of life is no big deal so long as they’re Washington’s allies. That utter hypocrisy is why I hit the reply button upon reading the first sentence of Trib’s post. I quote: “My concern with Iran is their potential forced exportation of their way of life.”
This is the exact same bullshit my country has invoked to ban Shi’ite literature and crack down on places of worship that date back to the 12th century. All the while, welcoming Saudi money funding what led to a pile of bodies.
I, for one, am not brainwashed (enough) to believe “the potential” of Iran exporting whatever it is you think they’re exporting is more pressing an issue than the worldwide spread of Wahabism. Nor do I believe the Iranians, whom have been oppressed by Sunnis for 15 centuries and who have a global coalition posing a very real and palpable threat to their very existence, are hell-bent on world domination.
In short, discussing the level of oppression from the Iranian regime should be separated from the threat it poses to American citizens. One is a real issue, and my heart is with all those in the streets of Tehran trying to reclaim some freedom from the government. The other is pretty much a myth. So please, don’t pretend that you can’t understand the distinction. Particularly not when jackasses are calling for foreign military intervention - that was on the table, and regarded as a plausible scenario months ago.