I suspect that if the Shah had not been overthrown, the cancer that killed him would have done so at about the same time he actually died. Then his heir could have proved to be a reformer, especially if pushed in that direction by American influence, and the Iranians could have been in the situation today of living in a constitutional monarchy with the freedoms they are now trying to wrest from the iron grip of their Islamofascist masters. In the 20th century, revolutions almost invariably resulted in the replacement of misrule, not by bad government as Ambrose Bierce’s definition said, but by horrible tyranny.

That’s because they all buy the propaganda that the PA spent decades working on. They were taught by the Russians, you may remember. And it’s worked. The Shiites in Iraq who are getting blown up by the Sunnis are still saying that if only Israel weren’t “oppressing” the Palestinians, they would be able to trust and count on the Americans.

Riiiiight.

However the sentiments he expressed are largely in accord with what’s expressed in tha article.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0310/Petraeus_throws_support_to_Mitchell_peace_efforts.html?showall

Maybe the administration is laying this at the feet of Gen. Petraeus so they can credibly claim that it’s a security issue. But apparently it doesn’t come from Petraeus.

I work with a guy who gets all his news from the NY Times, Wash Post, CNN and the New Yorker.
Seriously.

His misconceptions on Israel are astounding and his ignorance is breathtaking.
He knows all about Jewish terrorists against Britain in the 30s, but then you had to see the look
on his face when I said, “See? There were Jews there before 1946”.
That had never occurred to him.

He knows about “700 Arabs expelled from Jerusalem” (I didn’t ask) but has never heard of the fact that Israel’s
peace-loving neighbors, at the founding of Israel, told all Muslims to leave the area so they could
kill all the Jews and not mistakenly kill some Muslims.

He had no idea that Israel gave back any of the land they took from their neighbors who tried to kill them all.

He had no idea whatsoever that they gave back the Sinai for instance.

Talking to him is a pain in the neck, you have to figure which misconception or ignorance he’s relying on for any statement.

All this while Obama tries to bankrupt our economy with his payola stimulus bill and socialized medicine schemes. The worse thing is that if the economy picks up and the republicans offer a weak candidate we might have four more years of this joker.

Anyone else?