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• Thursday, November 20, 2008 03:26 PM

  @Faulk

  All I'm sayin' with regards to Iran, is that fresh approaches will yield much more rewards than rusty old ones. I mean, is the wet newspaper method workin' out okay?

  I have hardly a living memory of the "salad days" of "our" beloved Shah Reza Pahlavi...I saw his lonely mastaba inside the mosque of al-Rifai in Cairo back in '88.

  The Shah was such a pariah (and pretty deservedly so) that Anwar Sadat eventually allowed him to be entombed inside one of the city of Cairo's most beautiful mosques.

  After the Shah and a revoltion that ensued in Iran, just about all of the words traded between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic have always been stuck on the same old small and limited vocabulary..

  The U.S.: "Rogue state," "Terror nation."

  Iran replies back "Shaitan kibir" (Great Satan) or "Death to John Travolta" or some such shit...

  I used to have a high school girlfriend who was half Iranian and half American back in the early '80's, her name was Aimee Askari..

  Aimee had some major mental anguishes having been born on the falt line of a row that just can't seem to let things cool even to this day.

  Iranians are a whole hell of a lot less ideological than most Americans imagine.

  I have yet to find one who really gives a flyin' fuck about the pious invulnarabilty of the so-called grand Ayatollah.

  And as I've said, Mr. Ahamad-I-need-a-job will be looking for work after Iran's soon to be next national elections.

  But if anybody needs confirmation that Hill's kind of approach to Tehran could produce promising results, why not check out this brand new proud sponsor on Matt Drudge's Sludge report:

  www.againstnucleariran.com

  —Klytus Read Klytus's other letters
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