2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton goes full Neocon at AIPAC, Demonizes Iran, Palestinians [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's just that, when we restored the Shah, we as Americans forever lost any right to lecture Iran as a country on anything or to claim moral superiority to Iran on anything. I assume you'll agree that we should never have overthrown Mossadegh in 1953.
Iran has a bad government, but nothing good can ever come of the US confronting that government. We've been implacably hostile to it since 1979, and if that hostility has achieved nothing there so far, that proves it never can achieve anything.
We already know that no US intervention there can ever have any progressive, democratic or humane results.
I do oppose Iran being repressive. It's a good sign that moderates won the last election. We need to leave this to the Iranian people. Change there can only be legitimate it it involves no one but the Iranians themselves. Bombing Iran(it would never just be an attack on one site) would hurt the democracy movement.
And I respectfully criticize the Israeli government when it oppresses the Palestinians. I don't oppose the existence of Israel. Nothing I have ever posted against there was essential to Israel's survival as a country OR the safety of the Israeli people.
The occupation and the settlements do nothing but harm to Israel and Israelis, and do nothing but make it harder to end the conflict.
If you care about Israel, you should be passionately anti-Netanyahu, anti-settler, and anti-right wing.