Quote from: tekla on June 27, 2009, 11:11:11 AM
You AND Toni? Yow, that's a lot of biting to do.
You know you'd love every second of it!!
It's easy, all too easy, to recommend how brave and courageous or foolhardy and silly another should be when that other is facing a repression one's self has never known, nor expects to ever know.
It's been the entire bedraggled problem of the neo-cons and their insane mumblings about world-power and projecting power and how other's will and should act if I do this or that. Fact is the group of them make Henry Kissinger look as brilliant as Talleyrand, Bismarck or Metternich with their idiotic refusals to look at both the world and themselves.
And those who "think they are pretty astute" seem just as moronic because neither do they spend five minutes just asking one rather simple question: what would I do? Instead they get all tangled up in what would Jesus do, or what would Churchill do or some other as ludicrous bs about what anyone else would or should do.
The real question is always: what would I do. For at that point perhaps it begins to dawn on one that easy and simple answers are never easy and simple.
We (our government and populace) have spent the best part of thirty years knowing absolutely nothing about Iran: it's people, it's culture, religions, the things it's populace believe to be true and false. Instead we treat it and them as though they were some plastic chessmen to be moved here and there on a board in order that we can somehow "win" a silly game.
The idiocy didn't begin with the neo-cons, but they have carried it to ever more ludicrously unrealistic and fantastic levels. They haven't managed to recall that sending Kurds, contras, Shia'a, Hmong and Degar (Montagnards) people to die for their moronic fantasies of unlimited and irresponsible power-trips is always a losing game that simply creates resentment and betrayal of those we "are for" and of those "who are against us."
Itmatters not whether such folk conceive of themselves as liberal or conservative: they are just as short-sighted, ignorant and stubborn one way or another.
N~