I wrote:
> And of course the Iranian government is more than a "a regime of > women-hating torturers"! <snip> > It should be stipulated that the current president of Iran (whose name > I won't try to spell from memory) is more populist than the guy he > beat in the election. It should be stipulated that the election itself > was more democratic than in many other countries.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
The main problem for us is that that is not common knowledge among Americans and how to make that common knowledge among them, rather than how to persuade Americans that the government of Iran has its share of problems, about which they are more than convinced.
so, why don't you go to the American people, rather than pushing your generally pro-Iran line here on pen-l? If you were to present a description if Iran that included all the warts, it would be much better. and why did you simply ignore the qualifications that I attached to my statements above? (i.e., that President A may be a fascist & that the election was structurally skewed toward mullahocracy -- so that the Iranian people get skrewed again.) Why are these warts ignored? because any admission that Iran is less virtuous than the Garden of Eden encourages Bush to impose sanctions (as if he cares what we think)? -- Jim Devine / "Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis." -- Robert Heilbroner
