Khatami is the one guy they should be cheering.
Why? They figure he double crossed them.
The catch is that Iranians, even the most liberal, are incredibly xenophobic, so anything we might do to destabilize the clerics will rally the Iranian reformers/liberals around the hardliners.
If large numbers of them are xenophobic, why do they like us?
The same sort of argument was raised with regard to VOA broadcasts during the Cold War but in fact we found out afterward this just was not the case.
Plus, the so-called "reformers" are not exactly the types we would like to have take over Iran. They are simply a improvement, but not necessarily a great one, over the clerics and hardliners.
So the students have got it right.
So, if the mullahs can't be deterred or bought off, what's the problem of further destabilizing an already corrupt, unpopular regime?
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Queen Elizabeth, Bill Clinton and Ayatollah Khomeni are dead and went to hell.
Elizabeth gets all nostalgic for back there and wonders how Phillip and that charming Mr Blair are doing. So she gets the devil to put through a phone call. Blair is charming, Phillip's OK and they all have a nice natter for five minutes and she signs off.
The devil says, "That'll be five million dollars, Your Majesty." She says, "Good heavens.... Oh,sorry!" And writes him a cheque.
Clinton starts getting morose and wonders how Hil and the Dems are getting along has the devil get him a line and has a good chat about Carl Rove and so forth, tells John Kery he feels his pain, and after ten minutes says bye now, and hangs up. The Devil says, "That'll be ten million dollars." Clinton says, "Hoo Boy!" and cuts a cheque.
Khomeni gets in a froth about how the wets in Tehran aren't clamping down and has the devil get him a line through and he harangues Khatami and the others for about an hour. He hangs up and the devil says, "That'll be one dollar."
All three of them say, "What! Only a dollar!"
"Well, sure," says the devil, "It's a local call." |
