Reply #2: I Met Iranians In College

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A long time ago, when they still called themselves Persians. I remember one guy in particular. Tall, curly blond hair, green eyes, captain of the soccer team. The ladies just swooned over him. Frankly, until he opened his mouth, you couldn't tell whether he was Anglo, German, Swedish, Italian, Irish... You get the picture.

The point is that, if there really are Al-Qaida operatives in the US gathering information for another attack, they're not going to be going around with a turban on their head, a scimitar in one hand, and a camera on the other.

And to pick on a guy just because he looks different isn't going to make this country any safer. At best it is ineffective, at worst it is making potential friends into bitter enemies.

I'm preaching to the choir, I know.

But I can't help it. This kind of bigoted over-reaction just pisses me off.