tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8327639392070628793.post8045852588328377852..comments2024-03-26T05:19:30.411-04:00Comments on PA Editors Blog: National Call-in Day on Diplomacy with IranUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8327639392070628793.post-2559378747606458952008-06-10T12:52:00.000-04:002008-06-10T12:52:00.000-04:00Ahmadinejhad's dreams are in keeping with those of...Ahmadinejhad's dreams are in keeping with those of the country's Mullahs - who are extreme, but their plans for the Middle East are not really in line with those of al-Qaeda, which seeks a Islamic Caliphate. I don't fall under the delusion that Iran is really a functioning democracy, as the reform movement, once vibrant and influential, has essentially been squashed, but it is naive, I think, toKrumbled Kookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10191781837942962249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8327639392070628793.post-3115403865726733772008-06-10T12:27:00.000-04:002008-06-10T12:27:00.000-04:00Of course, Iran's threat to wipe Israel off the ma...Of course, Iran's threat to wipe Israel off the map, its spreading of Nazi-like stereotypes of Jews and subsidizing Islamic extremist intervention in Iraq, are mere schoolyard bully talk. Iran is to be watched and held in tow with UN sanctions. This is a country who population in 1979 was 15 million and today is 70 million. Ahmadnijahad has dreams of a caliphate. Let's not be naive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8327639392070628793.post-34497235430630337652008-06-09T22:51:00.000-04:002008-06-09T22:51:00.000-04:00Don't get me wrong, Joel - I plan on making the ca...Don't get me wrong, Joel - I plan on making the calls because its the right thing to do, and because I respect human rights (not to mention international law).<BR/><BR/>This whole issue with Iran is crazy. Iran has done nothing wrong - according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, there is no indication that Iran is or was working on a nuclear weapons program (essentially the same Krumbled Kookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10191781837942962249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8327639392070628793.post-13879861279411323802008-06-09T22:39:00.000-04:002008-06-09T22:39:00.000-04:00Harold, while I agree with the validity of your co...Harold, while I agree with the validity of your comment, I think that as a tactic of talking to other people, especially a member of Congress, the statement is worthwhile. Who can say, "I am for destabilizing the Middle East." I think that kind of thinking was a subtext of the Bush administration's long-since abandoned rhetoric (if not abandoned policy) about what it was doing in Iraq. And while Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16818415755568794461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8327639392070628793.post-54205720467445353192008-06-09T22:11:00.000-04:002008-06-09T22:11:00.000-04:00While I fully support diplomacy with Iran, the pro...While I fully support diplomacy with Iran, the problem with this statement is that it assumes that the US has an interest in a stable Middle East, which history shows it clearly does not. It is in the U.S. imperialists' interest to have a destabilized Middle East because it "justifies" (in the perception of the U.S. population) continued U.S. interventionism.Krumbled Kookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10191781837942962249noreply@blogger.com