> Try not to tell me what I think. I have criticised the Iranian regime,
> and
> so has Yoshie as it happens, and I have never argued that it gives aid and
> comfort to the enemy to point to the limitations on democratic rights in
> Iran: or, more precisely, I could argue that it does, but that this
> wouldn't
> be a good enough reason not to do it. Either you are wrestling with
> mental
> shadows or you are engaging in manifest bad faith. Which seems to be the
> norm wherever Yoshie raises an interesting or slightly contrarian
> argument.
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Glad to have cleared that up. If you and Yoshie also recognize criticism of
the regime as legitimate, it makes me wonder what Yoshie has been going on
about these many months - lately to your enthusiastic applause? I respect
Yoshie, not least because she is not afraid to be contrarian, but you're
being disingenuous in her defence; it has been her persistent
unsubstantiated remarks about Doug and other Western "liberals" on this list
as somehow helping to facilitate US aggression against Iran which has
provoked these exchanges. To what end, I haven't the slightest idea.