Iran captures CIA-backed terrorist leader

[Hauldren Collider]

I love it when people accuse the US of meddling and being imperial. Truth is, we don't really want 51st states, we just like to crush problems before they become too big.

By "we" I mean I'm generalizing a country of 300 million people. >_>

[Kitschum]

We don't want puppets. We want democracy. That's how it has changed. Try a little harder to keep up with the times.

So what? "You" want revenge, cheap energy and low wages too. What's telling is what "you" do to what end.

[Elok]

We don't want puppets. We want democracy. That's how it has changed. Try a little harder to keep up with the times.

Eh, I don't really care if they're democratic provided they don't fly their planes into our buildings anymore. And our current process of generating democracies isn't much different from our previous process of puppetry, except now we're not getting cheap resources or reliable markets for shoddy exports. Instead we have an imitation political system clumsily grafted onto a society that never really wanted it.

I kinda miss the good ol' days of gunboat diplomacy.

[HalfLotus]

I don't recall Iranians flying planes into American buildings. I do recall the U.S. overthrowing Iranian governments for the past half century, so who'd blame 'em if they did?

Folks are quick to identify propaganda from Iran and elsewhere, but are apparently are oblivious to the fact that their own government's propaganda dominates western media outlets, and is far more effective than a lone state-run media outlet in Iran.

[DaShi]

But none of that proves your point.

[HalfLotus]

My view was established about 15 posts ago, try to keep up. The U.S. supports terrorists in Iran.

Now we're just swatting down Eco's nonsense that the U.S. is intervening to establishing 'democracy'.

[DaShi]

No one caeres about your view. You can't prove that leader of Jundullah was supported by the US.

[Ecofarm]

Or that they are a terrorist organization. Considering the Iranian government, they could be journalists or a women's rights group.

[Theben]

My view was established about 15 posts ago, try to keep up.

Establishing your POV =! Proving your hypothesis