Are you completely nuts?
> Don't be a surrealist. The international jihadists of the Al Qaeda
> tendency are alien to you, me, Lenin, all of us here, and vice versa.
> If we went to Iraq -- which we won't! -- we'd be lucky if one of them
> didn't catch us and behead us, or if slightly less demented Islamists
> than Qaeda types didn't kidnap us and demand huge ransoms for us, so
> they could go on fighting, who knows whom. We are too soft for Iraq
> -- that is clear.
>
> Let the Islamists of Iran, the dictator of Syria, and Moktada al-Sadr
> and his likes take care of the problem we are not equipped to handle.
> They know how to kill and otherwise neutralize deranged terrorists who
> dream of the 7th century.
Well, while we're at it, why not bring back Saddam Hussein. After all we he was doing a terrific job. By your standards it seems he just wasn't brutal enough.
Apparently the level of atrocities is just too low for you and Caroll Cox.
> I'd rather go to Iran and do people-watching at Vanak Square in the
> affluent northern Tehran -- that's where chic cafes and nice shops
> are, smartly dressed young people -- many of them secular and liberal
> and perhaps English-speaking -- hang out, and those who are so
> inclined can pick up hustlers and prostitutes (or so my Persian
> teacher -- such a darling! -- tells me). :->
> --
> Yoshie
Oooh Fun! And afterwards we can watch them hang homosexuals in the square! Then it's back home for some video from the firing squads of Iranian Kurdistan. And let's not forget the stonings! What a lovely country Iran is! Such quaint customs!
Prostitutes, heroin addicts AND executions based on religious law. They really give you everything for your tourist dollar.
Iran is a disgusting, reactionary theocracy. How can you call yourself a socialist?