"death to America," "death to Israel" and "death to the U.K."
The really great thing about the protests, even if they would fail to change anything, is that the entire world now know that there are more "death to the dictator" people than "death to Israel" people in Iran.
That totally gave away their bluff.
I agree with this; however, wars are started by governments, but fought by the people. Of course we should meddle in Iran. Only liberals think we should just sit here and let the world do as it will. Ahmedinejahd has a messiah complex, and thinks he's the one to bring the 12th Imam back up out of the well. The only way to do that is to spread worldwide chaos; what's the best way to do that? Start a worldwide, preferably nuclear, conflict.
I was in a heated discussion with my wife's uncle one evening last week. He's a liberal, unionist Democrat who thinks he knows it all because he watches the History Channel. He yelled "Look what we did in Iran in the 50s; that's why they hate us over there!"
I had to patiently inform him that Mossadegh was a Soviet puppet, and that we were simply doing, in our interests, what the Soviets were doing in their own. It was, after all, the Cold War. Okay, the Shah did some bad things, but by and large, he was good for the country. He brought modernization of schools, industry and medical care; outside investment....secularization of government and education (which liberals should just adore).
We can't sit here in isolation and not involve ourselves in the world, simply because every other country is out there, involving themselves, to some extent. Know what his counter-argument was?
"So what?"
That was it. How do you fight that? Typical liberal.
If Iran gets a nuke, even a Hiroshima-sized bomb, it'll be Katie Bar the Door in the region. Every country over there will be scrambling to acquire nuclear weapons, if not to ally themselves with Iran, then to protect themselves from Iran. Although Isreal has never, that I know of, declared themselves to be a nuclear power, they've never said otherwise, either.
If Iran has only one or two bombs, with which they could take out a couple cities, they could be looking at massive, and catastrophic, retaliation. If everyone gets 72 virgins....well, I hope Allah has a big harem.
I have no doubt that, if this were the case, Israel would still be the subject of worldwide reproach, even if they did have two smoking, radioactive craters where once stood cities. They're not allowed to defend themselves.
