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• • 15 Aug 06
  • 5:54 pm

  When Hezbollah decided to participate in Lebanese politics in 1992, their leadership wrote up a report and sent it to Iran. Khamenei said, "Sure, participate in your region's secular government" because as their theocratic supreme leader, Khamenei has the final say in what Hezbollah does. But the point the author makes about "terrorism" being "community-based" is important and cannot be stressed enough. Ahmadinejad, Khamenei, and other Iranian powerholders support Hezbollah in the sense that they don't like Isreal's intentions, but the US is not justified in saying that therefore taking out Iran is the next step of a "new Mid-East process". …

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• • 25 Aug 06
  • 7:58 pm

  traveler: If a nuclear weapon went off in NYC, democracy, as we know it, would disappear. We'd become a society run by theocrats, spouting things like "God doesn't want America to perish, so we must destroy the Arabs first." And then we'd respond with nuclear weapons. Or chances are, out of fear, we'll have nuked the Iranians first. Trust me, extremists in America are waiting, almost on the edge of their seats for such a scenario, to be the first to fill a power vacuum, and then the world will REALLY be a mess. (I'm not convinced that extremists aren't already …

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