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To: LindyBill who wrote (240219)	2/29/2008 2:27:27 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793958

Fascinating stuff that shows, in my opinion, that Iran's revolution is hardly unique or unknowable or "irrational." Instead we see the same old, same old: corrupt ideologues versus less corrupt technocrats. Both think they can revitalize the failed revolution, and both are wrong. Every single person who makes a serious study of Ahmedinijad says he is a Mahdist true believer. Some journalist just wrote a bio of him and came to the same conclusion - that is isn't making it up when he claim miracles happen around him or prays for the Mahdi's imminent return in his speeches or sends letters to the West urging them to convert (following Mohammed's example). He isn't a hypocrite; he believes. If you believe that the Mahdi will return Real Soon Now and it's your job to help his return, how can that not affect your decision-making process? But Barnett just blows it all off. Doesn't exist as far as he's concerned. Islam is just the same as Communism and Maoism to him. He expects Iranians to stop believing in it just like the Communists stopped believing. He doesn't get it that Islam is already 14 centuries old and has staying power.

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