and in what way would support for the iranian opposition from the americans be in anyway beneficial to either one? This smalls of staged indignation to me.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Jerry Johnson<[email protected]> wrote: > > My assumption is that his interest mirrors mine (although he probably > actually cares more than I). > > 1. vague humanitarian "there but for the location I was born..." empathy > 2. disgust for abuse of power, wherever it happens > 3. reasoning that a more dictatorial, religiously bent, violent Iran is not > a good thing for the region, for Israel, or for the US. > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> This is probably going to come off all wrong... but feck it anyway. >> Purely out of curiousity: Why exactly do _you_ care about the people of >> Iran? It just seems kind of inconsistent considering your stance on >> Isreal-Palestine. >> >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Michael Dinowitz < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > Define humanitarian efforts in the face of humans being mowed down. Or >> > is Iran (or china, and anyone else on the "human rights board") >> > exempt? >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Scott Stroz<[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > The UN should stick to humanitarian efforts. When it comes to actually >> > > dealing with anything other than that, they are completely useless. All >> > the >> > > UN will do is speak to them sternly - and even then its not that stern. >> > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Michael Dinowitz < >> > > [email protected]> wrote >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299157 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
