It turns out that the campaign to combat Iranian influence in the Persian Gulf by deploying a large and growing number of American troops to fight on behalf of Iranian-backed political parties in Iraq can produce some paradoxical results.
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Good Iranian Agents Or Bad Iranian Agents?
24 Feb 2007 01:57 pm
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It goes without saying that Johnny "bitchen populist" Edwards or Barack "fresh face" Obama will be elected and end that war in Iraq deal so we can all just get back to normal, but in the unlikely event that lib Hitler Hillary or Rudy "bitchen mayor type" Giuliani is elected president and we end up invading Iran it would be better to turn the American military into an imperial army with lots of illegal alien recruits and hired third world armies so young middle class Americans don't have to serve. I say this because deep down I really don't care if America is a republic or an empire only that Bush is impeached and I don't have to serve in the army.
Also, I think it's probably well understood that I think Giuliani is more of a big jerk type than a bitchen mayor type, but that's really only because he's a Republican and not a Democrat. I mean he was kind of a dick with all that poor black people stuff in New York but I don't think that stuff was really that bad (although you totally wouldn't say that in public). I know some people will disagree (but I know you're like fakers), and you can totally buy an iPOD in Times Square now which is like cool you know? (and that's about as good as poor black people not being put in jail for being poor black people) .
Rudy used his magical Republican fairy dust to turn NYC into Shangri-la. The former chiefs of police, Roe v. Wade and the Clinton economy of course had nothing to do with it.
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Heads in the Sand
If you want paradoxical about the US and Iran, then I suggest you read this.
Both Iranians and Americans have strongly negative views of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Three in four Iranians (74%) and more than nine in ten Americans (94%) view bin Laden unfavorably, including large majorities (68% and 89%, respectively) who view him very unfavorably. Only 10 percent of Iranians look at the al Qaeda leader favorably (2% Americans).
I would bet that the opposite applies in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia!
At the most general level, respondents were asked: “Some people think that bombing and other types of attacks intentionally aimed at civilians are sometimes justified while others think that this kind of violence is never justified. Do you personally feel that such attacks are often justified, sometimes justified, rarely justified, or never justified?”
A very large majority of Iranians (80%) take the strongest position that such attacks “are never justified,” and another 5 percent say they are rarely justified. Only 11 percent call them sometimes (8%) or often (3%) justified.
Americans largely concur but at lower levels of intensity. Forty-six percent say that such attacks are never justified, while 27 percent say they are rarely justified. Twenty-four percent see them as sometimes (19%) or often (5%) justified.
Maybe the fallout from 24 is far worse than anybody realised.
Posted by blowback | February 24, 2007 7:44 PM