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Old 09-21-2007, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post

Are they going to attack us tomorrow? I don't know but since they already have attacked us by holding our embassy hostage during the heady days of Jimma Cawda (andthe same person was involved as is now president) I would not invite them to speak at my college!
That is what I would call geopolitical ignorance. The Iranian hostage crisis was precipitated by US manipulation of their internal affairs putting in a Shaw who was pretty police state Orwellian.

In desperation that scenario created an opposite extreme, the current Iranian Gov.
The covert policies of the United States under the CIA during the cold war created that dynamic.

Using that as a background justification is woefully politically ignorant.
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