What he is doing in fact is deleting posts from anyone who disagrees with him or with anyone he simply doesn't like regardless of what they have to say.

A. Demonstrably false. There are some regulars here he should have banned, IMHO, a long time ago, and he doesn't. He's banned four posters that I know of in the time I've been posting here. However, when someone shows up to write "kill all the Jews" all the time, that person's more likely to get deleted. In the first case, there are Jews and others who are offended by that kind of thing. It would probably be the same if it was any other group as well. It reflects badly on the space in any case, and can be used by unscrupuluous idiots trying to prove that there is some kind of anti-Jewish wave over here. And there isn't, that's obvious to anyone who actually reads the posts here.

B. So what if he deleted you simply because he doesn't like you. Its his space to do whatever he wants to do with it. I'm thankful that he provides the space and the infinite patience that goes along with it. But I've never considered it my right or whatever. Were he to ban me tomorrow because he doesn't like my consistent mispelling of you're/your, I would simply be thankful for the time I got.

C. Frankly, I'm not a fan of anti-Semites. I have a lot of Jewish friends, and your intense and obvious hatred of Jews personally turns my stomach. I think you'd find plenty of websites out there more to your liking.

Now stop the tears. It really does get to me when grown persons cry about not having absolute control over the hospitality and resources of others.

I can't ignore what's not there to begin with. You didn't provide proof of their own suicide being part of their beliefs. Urging others to commit suicide for you is not the same as wanting to do it to yourself. Indeed, not unlike our own 101st chairborne [of which, you are a proud veteran], which urges others to throw away their lives on baseless wars, while cheering from the sidelines.

Actually their feet are planted firmly on the nuts of their countrymen, whom they had no problem shooting, in cold blood, in their capital.

Yes, that was my point you fool. If they were suicidal that would have been as good a way to go as any. The truth is you can argue that their leaders are evil, and perhaps they are [as are ours], but you can't argue that they're after anything less than supremacy and survival. Only a fool would argue against that in the face of the bloody steps that the regime took to protect itself. And you're that fool.

How do you know that the Iranian leadership isn't suicidal?

Well, here's one hint: They just fought tooth and nail against tens of thousands of other Iranians to stay in power! I'd say that's a group definitely not willing to give up life just yet. Maybe they've got their minds set on dying in a nuclear conflagration, have spent the last three decades trying to obtain the technology to do so and just won't settle for going out in an old fashioned popular uprising. If the last few months have shown anything, is that the regime has got both feet planted firmly on the groud when it comes to the pragmatic business of staying in power.

Mark Marshall:The reason is that for states to hand nuclear weapons to non-state actors would be suicidal. There is simply no reason to believe that that axiom does not apply to Iran as well.

Jonathanin:So are you saying that Israel would be justified in using nukes on Iran if Iran gave a third party nukes for the purpose of being used on Israel?

Um, if it was anyone else, I would assume that they had mistakenly left out part of the comment they meant to respond to. The fact that your response seems to have nothing to do with the statement you excerpted, however, hews closer to your usual useless drivel. Is there a reason to think that what you had to say makes any sense when put in context?

I've taken it as far as any sentient being with an operative hemispherical connection would need. Again, your Dresden analogy requires me to see the British empire as "the good guys" in that war, even as it brutally crushed the aspirations for self-determination of several countries at once. Given what the British were doing in Ireland, in India, in Asia, and in Palestine its really no surprise that they would unleash the same kind of answers to their war with Germany. Enough bullshit. I'm done with you.