This election shows me one thing: even if the Iranian government is batshit crazy, the people aren't. They seem to want more moderation wheras the government wants to be hardline.
I think the US kinda shot itself in the foot with this one. We had such a hard line attitude with Iraq that Iran is afraid to show any weakness. Dubya built a reputation of us as warmongers and now everyone is treating us like warmongers. Not letting Obama off the hook on this one, either; his foreign policy has been only slightly better than Bush. The wars Dubya started, Obama is very slowly ending, but he's the one using a lot of drone strikes and he's still invading our privacy in the name of security. If not for the fact that he's a giant douchebag elsewhere, this makes me wish I could vote for Ron Paul just for the foreign policy.
I think the US kinda shot itself in the foot with this one. We had such a hard line attitude with Iraq that Iran is afraid to show any weakness. Dubya built a reputation of us as warmongers and now everyone is treating us like warmongers. Not letting Obama off the hook on this one, either; his foreign policy has been only slightly better than Bush. The wars Dubya started, Obama is very slowly ending, but he's the one using a lot of drone strikes and he's still invading our privacy in the name of security. If not for the fact that he's a giant douchebag elsewhere, this makes me wish I could vote for Ron Paul just for the foreign policy.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
