that's a hard question. I must think about it. I'll let you know.

__________________

I asked asked an Arab a similar question.. you might be interested in his response --> Westerns! we must talk!

If fact I'd be interested in hearing your answers to those same questions I had for Borkan. Oh and pls send him a private message, see if you can wake him up.. it'd be good to see Borkan here again

__________________
.




"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan

any questions about Iran?

for now? I don't think so. at least, us should help them as well as iran. our countries should discuss these matters.

sunni arabs hate shiites. that makes it hard. for iran, not until US become friendly with iran. us shouldn't use iraq as a base to threaten iran and iran should be more participating in the iraq issue.

why not? even israel is trusted with 200 nukes and a radical zionist regime.

__________________

I suggest him to see iran as a important power in region, not a weak country full of terrorists. he should discuss at least these issues:

1- letting Iranian people decide about internal affairs. intervening is the first problem.

2- understanding cultural differences.

3- regional problems should be discussed. also us should not support false claims against iran by all means.

4- inviting iranian elites to us or us elites to iran and having conferences, seminars, exchange ideas and helping each other.

5- sanctions. us has almost destroyed iran by sanctions.

this will end the enmity. iran and us can be good allies. everything started from when us supported the dictator Shah and denied people's revolution. this was surely a great mistake.

__________________

Their Radical Zionist Regime™ is contained within a democratic framework. So the Radical Zionist Regime™ cant do anything without the consent of the Israeli people.

The same is not true of Iran. That is why I don't trust them with nukes.


I am all in favor of that, and I am sure he is too. Let me know when the Iranian People have control of their internal affairs.


By "elites" do you mean elected representatives? Please clarify.

I'm not sure how we can negotiate with the Iranian People if we cant talk to them or their elected representatives. All we can do right now is talk to the oligarchy that currently has power over them.


The purpose of the sanctions is to force Iran to cease it's pursuit of nuclear weapons. So they can end the sanctions whenever they want. They have the initiative.

Imposing sanctions is bad. Allowing Iran to gain nukes is worse. I will take "bad" over "worse".


Then enmity cannot end at this time.



Not until their government becomes a democracy. We will never really trust them until that happens.



For which I am openly critical of my government. I fully agree we were wrong to do that. We should have known better than to support a non-democracy.

As a neocon, I can no tolerance for non-democracies. But neocons were not in power at that time. Paleocons were. And they didn't have a problem supporting a friendly dictatorship.

So we are cleaning up the mess they made. But supporting Irans current government will lead to similar problems. It will not clean up the mess, it will make the mess bigger.

__________________
My Political Blog (Last post Feb 14) - My MySpace Page

First and foremost, Perham this is an awesome thread. Keep it up.

Rebellion,I agree that Iran's nuke plants are for nukes, but they are also probably for power generation. They may have huge reserves of oil and natural gas, but they also sell them in order to buy things that they cannot produce in their own country.

__________________
sputterman: "Aiding the enemy? If the truth aids the enemy then we are in the wrong war."

Actually from what I gather, you're asking loaded questions so that you can reinforce your own negative stereotypes. When he kindly refuses, you get pissy about it.

It's actually rather sad.

And they have a serious shortage of refinery capacity. So anything that cuts down on the need for refined (as opposed to crude) oil makes sense.

__________________
Scarred survivor of the April 2008 Mod War.

I have a question...

How many, and what type, of weapons did Ronald Reagan sell to Iran?

__________________
Manu Chao - Bongo Bong

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." - Oscar Wilde

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." - Sir Francis Bacon

all I know is from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair

__________________