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2011-11-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Syria will bow to the Russians, and then pencil neck will have his determination decided.

Posted by newc 2011-11-25 01:07|| 2011-11-25 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Its a Sunni Shia thing, with Turkey's islamonazis adapting to empowered Iran. I say empowered, because the current regime is nothing but a Jimmah Carter Frankenstein. The Shah should have been given a free hand against the genocidal ayatollahs.

BHO hugged Erdogan. I wonder if he would bow to Ahmadinejad?

Posted by Shomonter Crasing4122 2011-11-25 04:22|| 2011-11-25 04:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately, the Shah suffered from two things: ill health and a desire to let the Iranian people, after decades of hard work, enjoy the fruits of their labor--which was interpreted as weakness.

The latter problem was the same thing that had happened to Porfirio Diaz in Mexico. His program of modernization was brutal, but very effective. Even to this day, the railroad system he created is still functional, despite it being Mexico. In his day, it was world class, and the pride of the country.

But in his old age, Diaz decided to liberalize and be less authoritarian. Today he is still officially derided as a tyrant, except among those in the know, who rightly see him as evolving Mexico by hundreds of years, in a short period of time.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-25 08:30|| 2011-11-25 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Pencilneck and his father, on the other hand, have created little or nothing but despair. Personally, I will never forgive them for being so neglectful that they allowed the secret of the making of Damascus steel, a closely kept 2000 year old secret of several families, to die out.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-25 08:34|| 2011-11-25 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 the current regime is nothing but a Jimmah Carter Frankenstein

You're forgetting another president---one who removed Iran's main enemy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-25 10:36|| 2011-11-25 10:36|| Front Page Top

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