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You can't negotiate with terrorists. We can't repeat Chamberlain's mistake of "Peace in our time". Just as the Chinese government does not think that cheating Westerners is wrong, and it is okay to steal our technology and copy our equipment, and sell it back to us as shoddy imitations is okay, the radicals feel that it is okay to lie to us.

People with that kind of philosophy cannot be trusted. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not ever.

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I simple suggestion- green light Israel to defend itself as it sees fit

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This sickens me.... We could have held the base and condition's for women would probably have been better..... No diplomacy coming from current Administration, such a disappointment.

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Note who the author is, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former director of the Project for a New American Century. Remember them, the Jewish led and dominated organization that spearheaded the lies and propaganda that took America to war in Iraq. He doesnā€™t give a damn about the women in Iran. He just wants to America to fight yet another war for Israel.

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Iran is the most important women's rights issue in America and the World, as was Afghanistan.

The silence of women's groups is criminal. As a father of a daughter, I am deeply saddened that women in this country cannot get off their asses to support women's rights in Iran and Afghanistan.

Taking a day off the abortion as the sole myopic focus of women's rights and actually speaking up for the human rights of all these women is the only step forward. Get some courage, and find your damn voice for this. All the other protest crap is hollow if you ignore this.

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May the Persian people overthrow the tyranny of the mullahs!!!!

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Unfortunately you have taken this whole sting of comments way beyond the intent of my first comment.

Youā€™re correct this is a much more complex issue than simply calling out a group of activists about their behavior.

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A totalitarian regime like in Iran can and should only be overthrown from within, we can't and shouldn't do it for the Iranians, especially since the cultural divide is as big as it is in this case. You remember what happened in Afghanistan when the US tried to overthrow the Taliban regime and replace it with a more western style democracy? It ended in utter failure, because the majority of Afghans turned against the "alien invaders" and preferred to stick with the authoritarians they knew. After 20 long and bloody years of the mighty US Army getting their asses kicked by some fanatical stone age warriors the US had to admit defeat and leave, while watching the "democratic Afghan government", they intended to leave behind, collapsing faster than the US forces could retreat. No Afghan was prepared to fight for it.

In the case of Iran that means we should support those courageous women in any way we can. Giving them global publicity, a voice to be heard on our entire planet and offer those a refuge who can't stay there any longer, because they have to fear for their dear lifes. But the hard work of liberating Iran needs to be done by Iranians from inside Iran, men and women alike. Because that's the only way it can really work.

We should learn to stay within our means and promote our values instead of trying to enforce them world wide. This world is not one big college, where everything gets instantly cancelled we don't like. Afghanistan should have taught us this lesson.

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I agree with 90% of what you said, BUT I disagree that the U.S. Army got their asses kicked. In fact the U.S. military did a very competent job from 2001 onwards, starting with dropping Special Forces guys into strategic positions to partner with local anti-Taliban forces and call in bombers as needed. They carefully avoided marginalizing the Pashtun who are the largest ethnic group in Afghan and prevented the Tajiks from savaging them as they conquered Kabul. They built schools and roads and bridges and had a lot of great, unsung accomplishments. The Taliban were in retreat, and reports from the field suggested that those men, many in their 30s and 40s, were tired of fighting and wished to return home and raise families. Then Barack Obama happened, moral relativism and Carter-esque weakness replaced iron resolve, and the military was told not to "win" but just to "maintain". The Taliban then began to claw back territory and terrorize the populace into compliance. Then Trump happened, a strong and forceful leader who seemed unafraid to use massive force, and the Taliban became rather respectful and compliant themselves. Even in setting up an exit from Afghan, Trump made sure the U.S. would leave a residual force in charge of Baghram Air Base and Kabul, at minimum. Then Biden happened, and suddenly the military was told to cut and run.

Obama, then Biden, pulled defeat from the jaws of victory. Yes, Biden did get us out of Afghan, but at a tremendous cost both to the Afghanis and to U.S. power and prestige around the world. No one respects a loser coward.

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The Iranian people are, like most people, quite lovely. Their regime is murderous, homophobic, misogynistic and antisemitic. May the Iranian people summon the considerable will to spill their blood to attain freedom. And may our political ā€œelitesā€ get out of Israelā€™s way when the time comes, and it draws nigh, for the necessary action the US doesnā€™t have the stomach forā€¦

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and may the peaceniks and Leftists within Israel (and yes there are quite a few, though no longer the 50-60% who supported the Peace Now movement in the late 90s before Arafat's murderous suicide bombing campaigns) also get out of the way.

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Wow. An entire article about how the Iranians were cheating on the Deal before the ink was dry & not a word about Parchin??? This talk by Caroline Glick is a MUST WATCH for anyone who really wants to know how bad the Iranians (and Obama & Lurch) were from the start. And you will know who Alberto Nisman was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jR1opDZrds&ab_channel=securefreedom

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The question isn't whether Joe Biden wants the protesters to succeed, it's whether Obama and his people who staff the current administration want the protesters to succeed. The answer is no.

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The protesters are an embarrassment to the U.S. regime.

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This is tragic. I still donā€™t understand what was ever in it for us. It always seemed like a one-sided ā€œdealā€ with us on the losing end and Israel paying the price. But there we are continuing to grovel down the inevitable path of nuclearization.

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The left considers any critique of the hijab to be islamaphobic and racist, so in woke land these Iranian women are now just being racist islamaphobes. Plus theyā€™re Persian, which is ā€œwhite adjacentā€ and they arenā€™t trans, so they arenā€™t even ā€œwomenā€, so they donā€™t matter.

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Another example of how the "moderate" Obama tread an extremist path that will destroy everything it touches. He also started the hostility to police that is destroying America's cities. The obsession with "equity". The distain for all things western.

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We need to decide a simple question: is it it our business to prevent Tehran from getting a bomb?

If the answer is "yes", then it needs to be made clear that the US will prevent that from happening at all costs, including military strikes and regime change if necessary. If the Iranians are really so upset at their rulers as this article presents, surely they will welcome us with open arms. Yeah right... because Iraq worked out so well.

If the answer to that question is "no", then we need to stop the pretense and work to integrate Iran into the pantheon of nuclear states. Saudi Arabia will follow suit. We should acknowledge our transfer of nuclear weapons to Israel and provide them launch codes (maybe we already have, but I doubt it. Uncle Sam likes veto power over his vassals.)

Personally, I believe the answer is "no", but I'm not sure. Are the ayatollahs so murderous that Mutually Assured Destruction won't work? Maybe, which would sway the answer to "yes". However, the reality is that unless we're prepared to keep nearly every non-WEIRD country vastly behind us in technology indefinitely, we need to accept that we're not putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle.

Russia could probably help us with Iran, both on the nuclear front and the human rights front. They wouldn't want to, but given the right incentives... of course, we've pretty much burned that bridge. The funny thing is that if you "isolate" enough countries, you end up isolating yourself.

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Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities. They have been sabotaging them for over 30 years and will only continue to, Biden or no Biden.

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Yaā€™ll will need to remove your masks if you want to have a revolution. You canā€™t start a revolution if you are still wearing a comfort mask. Itā€™s in the manual.

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