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• Sunday, May 14, 2006 08:42 PM

  Recipe for the Status Quo

  After reading the interview, one may surmise:

  a) the regime in Iran is opressive & will use force (previously including death squads) to impress its will

  b) the people want a new government

  c) but, do not give any direct or indirect aid to us, because it will result in the "liberals" being discredited.

  What a recipe for inaction! Does anyone seriously think that the current government in Iran is going to be overthrown from within - based on their previous inclination to use violent means to preserve their power? And what about the "non-liberal" poor in Iran that support the strict government there? The Bashiji militias (made up of the poor and uneducated) are also representative of the people there too.

  Please do not get me wrong, I certainly do not support any kind of military action on the Iranians (at this time) other than a notification that if they ever do get the bomb that any use of it - covert or overt - would result in the vaporization of their country. But this article makes so clear the whole conceit of the middle east - "leave us alone to work out our problems, but let me bitch all day that you are not helping me solve them."

  I just wish people like Ms Ebadi would state how we could help - rather than complain about anything that we do. But with the current price of oil floating the regime there for the next few years - I sincerely doubt that anything will change - with or without any "aid" from the West.

  —Ironclad Read Ironclad's other letters
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