(May 10, 2018 at 2:55 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:But Iran till has a lot of interaction with the US. I was thinking more along the line of why don't they simply end all of it as it the US didn't exist?(May 10, 2018 at 12:09 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
Iran hasn’t had formal diplomatic relations with the US since 1979.
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This is what I hate about my species, and I don't mean I hate every individual. I do hate that far too many WORLDWIDE don't understand our evolutionary tendencies. When enough of a mass is restless and feels like it doesn't have the resources it needs, it will make waves when it can, and the leaders take advantage of that and promise them an impossible utopia. Humans have a horrible tendency that when things get rough, we turn to the biggest asshole on the block to "defend" us.
The irony of the fall of Iran back then turned into a theocracy, only to have Trump today prey upon conservative fears here.