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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189727)6/19/2006 6:48:25 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Then where is the revolution? I dont buy that the iranian people are that unhappy. Iran mirrors china in some ways. Perfect--not but neither is it the worse of the totalitarians we have seen.

As for fp, there are lt iranian and US interests that exist irrespective of leaders. I think that if Muslim interests in jerusalem are protected and the shiaa get their place there (not just sunnis), a deal is possible and even if doesnt occur anytime soon, it will one day because US and Iran have common national interests that will one day trancend the extreme neocons and the mullahs. If we could survive mass murderer stalin, Krushchev/cuban missile crisis and then coexist with that bastard breznev and his successors, we should be able to attempt that with iran. And the compromise to do this should be no nukes, economic relationships, normalization of relations with israel and partnership in iraq. All are in both nations interests imho.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (189727)6/21/2006 10:18:19 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Respond to of 281500
 
That is pretty irrelevant. If the government did not wish it, they could have cracked down on pro-American gathering. Nor did they have to help with the overthrow of Afghanistan, or grant Air and Landing rights to US.

The bottom line is that it was the best opportunity for establishing normalized relationships and Bush-Cheney pissed it away.