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So first you move to dispel the notion that Iran is 'evil'. That's good, very enlightened of you. But then you go on to attribute 'evil reasons' to the US? I think you still have quite a way to go along your path of self-enlightenment.


Nah, I move to add a bit of history in to show that the U.S.'s evil is at the root cause of a series of events that lead to the current Iran situation. I also point out that our wonderful media and educational system have worked to prevent Americans from connecting those dots when the topic of our response to Iran comes up. Americans realizing our impact on the situation might realize sanctions and Stuxnet aren't going to help us in the long-term. More debate and better ideas might happen that undermine the imperialist activities still going on in Middle East.

They certainly don't want that. Mainstream media continues to dutifully vilify Iran without context and make it look like our actions are purely self-defense against aggressive, religious nutjobs. Military and spooks continue playing games over there. Problems and potential blowback continue to add up. And so on and so forth.




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