-- On 16 Sep 2004 at 15:54, Tyler Durden wrote:
I'll grant there are some fanatics left in Iran, but Iran seems increasingly dominated by fairly sleezy clergy/judges. Like any government, theirs is deteriorating into a mere racket. And if you ask me, fanaticism never lasts very long anywhere, only for about a generation during turbulent times.
Iran is fostering war in Iraq and cooperating with Al Quaeda, which after what happened to Saddam indicates a fair degree of insanity. Iranian financed military movements, Hezbollah and Sadr, have been fairly well behaved - they don't target other people's children - just their own, but their willingness to cause the deaths of their own children is even more frightening than Al Quaeda's antics, though marginally less repugnant morally. People so willing to sacrifice children, are apt to be willing to use nuclear weapons. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JKV/vsDeMLA+XUjdEyUC/KWjhIp7SvJjIbs1S7N/ 4obymQ+9XJMZgOwhPiK6FAtItaG0jErbco9OOpmms