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Aristus

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31. I actually am a fan of Iran.

Sun Sep 15, 2019, 04:57 PM

Sep 2019

Not their leadership, by any means. But their people. And their culture, which stretches back 3,000 years.

Half the country is under the age of thirty. They have no memory of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Their young people love Western pop culture, the music, movies, clothing, etc. They've discovered they can enjoy all of these things and still be devout, observant Muslims.

My thing is: why aren't we doing everything we can to make them our ally again? Bill Clinton and Barack Obama made enormous strides in that direction, only to have George W. "Axis Of Evil" Bush and Donald "Reverse Everything That Obama Did" Trump come along.

Before we can even think about changing the leadership in Iran, we need to change the leadership in Israel.

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