Money quote(s):
"Are we going to do anything to people who kill Americans? Apparently not. The Bush administration never did — it would be pretty foolish to expect this gang to."
There are a lot of folks, individuals and organizations, out there in the great abroad who've made a sideline (or worse) in killing my fellow citizens.
And, if truth be told, the case can be made that we (the U.S.) have actively rewarded that behavior set as often as we've punished it.
"Iran is at war with us. Are we at war with Iran? In fact, they’ve been at war with us for over three decades, but we continue, administration in, administration out, to pretend otherwise."
Iran, like a lot of places, is a special case.
Persians, as people, generally are a relatively likeable lot. Iran, on the other hand, deserves at least a five-page essay just to scratch the surface.
The mullacracy that runs the joint can best be understood as a cabal of messianistic death-worshippers whose morals compare disadvantageously with The Sopranos and who are hag-ridden by both a civilizational inferiority complex and delusions of imperial grandeur.
U.S. policy regarding Iran evidences a major strain of wishful thinking and has for decades.
7/12
