What did you think, that Iranians live in caves? Are you sure that you support all-out war on Iran? It's kind of scary how many of my people look at these humans as non-humans. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_AqbcGFGg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_AqbcGFGg[/ame]
How indebted are the beautiful Persian people? Oh, that's right! They have one of the few banks that are not entangled in our catastrophic global banking schematic!
Gee wilikers! Why, they're just like us nasty capitalist, pleasure seeking, fun loving, good natured Americans. Huh, imagine that. Sorta like all those urban yuppy commies in Shanghai.
No man, they are cave-dwelling jihadists who wish to destroy western civilization. I'm guessing that McDonald's hasn't made its way to Iran yet.
East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. Those 'westernized' Iranians are still P.O'd about the Crusades. People that live a pork chop and bacon free life feel a lot of hostility toward us pig eaters. And they have no clue what Miller Time is all about. They hate us because Miller Time is a reality to us. Then there's the issue of those poor guys getting all horned up, hangin' with those Persian foxes all night at some Disco Fruit Juice bar...then going home alone night after night after night, knowing that their western counterparts are gettin' wet...night after night after night.
Which path to Persia, 3 first names? It's been in the plans for a long time, are you ready to tote the lamb to the sacrificial monument? http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/06_iran_strategy/06_iran_strategy.pdf Funders At the end of 2004 the Brookings Institution had assets of $258 million and spent $39.7 million, while its budget has grown to more than $80 million in 2009.[54] Its largest contributors include the Ford Foundation, the Gates Foundation, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard C. Blum, Bank of America, ExxonMobil, Pew Charitable Trusts, the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation; and the governments of the United States, Japan, Qatar, Taipei, the District of Columbia, and the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution
I would have to read the 170 pages inclusive on your link before I could either understand what your question implies or comment on it...thanks.
I have known a number of folks from Persia during my life, and I have never met any that I dont admire and happy to count as my friend. I dont have a problem with the people of Iran, its their leadership that I have issue with.
And..most westerners have a problem with our own leadership. I just thought it was important for people to see that they aren't nonchalantly declaring war verses primitive jihadists. The Persian people are highly intelligent, advanced human beings. Not that the Arabs are not...
I know. I have a couple friends that are Persian. Both are highly intelligent. I know one of them is likely going to an Ivy League school for medicine. In addition, I have a friend that is Afghani. Once again, he is a nice, genuine person, not a primitive jihadist.
My hope is that some day, in the near future preferably, the M.E. experiences a secular revolution... at least to the point that religion and politics become separate to the greatest extent possible. The fundies are keeping them down.
The "Arab Spring" has not exactly lived up to its billing, has it? Too many of the old guard still around to capture the movements. The youth, thanks to the internet, are going to save this planet.
And it doesn't help that 'insulting' Islam can be a crime. I'd imagine that insulting Islam in applicable places is vaguely defined, causing one to be fearful at every step.
You would think it would come sooner or later. Hopefully the Arab Spring was just the beginning of a movement that will continue in the younger generations. The internet is making the flow of information in these places a lot more permissible. Except for the fact that the Iranian government is hell bent on restricting everything...
Meanwhile Xerxes, to avoid sailing across the Hellespont with his vast army, ordered a bridge to be built across it. But soon after the bridge was finished, a violent storm dashed it into fragments. When Xerxes heard of the disaster, his cruel and childish temper was roused. He ordered the engineers who had planned the bridge to be beheaded, and that was a cruel act. He also commanded that the Hellespont should be scourged with three hundred stripes and that a pair of fetters should be cast into the sea, and these were foolish acts. "He sent branders, too, as some say, to brand the Hellespont; and he charged them to rebuke the water and cry unto it, 'O bitter water, thus doth the king punish thee, because without wrong from him thou has done him harm.
Meanwhile, it's the 21st century and we heard the same Iranian propaganda a decade ago about Iraq, that success story.
oh yes. Xerxes who married the beautiful Esther and upon her entreaty saved her people, the Jews, from intended extermination by Haman, his number 2 guy.
Modern day Iran is still like the Great Persian Empire in their cruelty. Condemning a man to death for his faith. The more times change the more they stay the same. Its like believing that Germany will never start a war again. Some things are just fact.
Pop quiz - Who has the 3rd largest population of Jews and who was offered money to move to Israel and refused? hint: suicidal Jews
30-35,000 and wiki puts it at 25,000. Yes they are suicidal in my opinion. There is no safety for jews or christians in a muslim/arab/persian land. Quite the opposite for muslims in jewish or christian nations. THAT should tell a reasonable person something.
I have met a few Iranians. They are delightful people. I have met a few Israelis. They were totally obnoxious.
in canada many iranians own pizza stores and they are very freindly and good people to talk to......the problem is americans listen to the propaganda that the elitist controlled media throws at them!
