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14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Iran's Green Revolution · 0 replies · +3 points
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Iran's Election: None ... · 0 replies · +1 points
The troubles in Iran are long-standing. Part of the problem is a result of American meddling in the politics of the region. By indirectly supporting such meddling, Raimondo is basically saying he likes unrest and friction in Iran. I don't see why he'd make that point if he's anti-war.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Iran's Election: None ... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Likud MPs Condemn Neta... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Iran's Election: None ... · 0 replies · +3 points
Juan Cole is a "gatekeeper" whose criticisms are pale and weak, and will only be used to serve the agenda of Obama's Administration. It's telling -- Cole criticized Bush stridently, but when Obama does exactly as Bush did, Cole offers support. With Cole, the only thing he needs to feel things are acceptable is to have a Democrat in the White House. It doesn't matter to Cole that the Democrat behaves as his Republican predecessor behaved. When that happens, Cole turns a blind eye to the Democrat's policies and acts. It's baffling if you think Cole is a detached scholar. But it's not confusing once you realize Cole is a mealymouthed partisan robot.
Cole believes in some myth of the noble Democrat. This point alone renders Cole's views useless at best. Nothing in America is as simple as to be fixed merely by swapping a Democrat for a Republican. Why? Because most Democrats are no different -- especially at the Federal level.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Iran's Election: None ... · 0 replies · +3 points
I'm afraid that Mr Raimondo's criticisms of Ahmadinejad's "economic" perspective might be assuming that Ahmadinejad sees "economic" issues the same way Raimondo does. Not everyone wants unbridled pirate capitalism, Mr Raimondo. Your economic views are the one place where I regularly disagree with you, because your views on pirate capitalism are the type the reward greed and sociopathic pursuit of money and profit at all costs. Ahmadinejad doesn't see the world that way. Why would he pursue an "economic" plan that suits you, then?
I agree with the take on the neocons, however.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Jon Stewart: Wimp, Wus... · 0 replies · +4 points