Honestly, I just think your foolishly wrong – which is my free speech right on the site i pay for.

You can pretend all day long I don’t think you’re foolishly wrong, but I do.

Funny how ardent supporters of free speech escalate to virulent when the exercise of freedom of speech contrasts your views.

Some of these good people in Iran read your blog and convince themselves that all americans are with them – and maybe we are. But unfortunately America voted for a group of feckless leaders who do not follow the will of the electorate. I suspect your angst directed at me is actually misdirected anger at our leaders in Washington.

Nobody wants to see innocents killed. However I want to bring to your attention a fact that may have overlooked in your zeal to rally freedom fighters:

Naively goading them to their deaths in the face of overwhelming firepower is a morally bankrupt exercise, AJ. You should be suggesting that they pause, regroup, and coalesce a broader support base than these undisciplined rallies that are easily disrupted with bullets and violence. You should be reminding them to be smarter and more effective by enlisting the military to fight the Basij and IRCG.

I suspect the only reason you respond to my posts is because you know, in the deep recesses of your heart, that I am only saying what you fear to be true.

Bitter? no. Old? no. Different from the Despots in Iran who kill innocent women? Yes – I am an American and I wish you no harm…nor do I think poorly of your emotional transferance.

Failure? no…Surrenderer? no… pragmatist? yes.

I wish you the very best, brother.

You are a bitter old ass, not much different from the old men grasping for power who killed this beautiful young woman.

Most definitely I oppose your defeatist crap. Most definitely I challenge you’re modern Neville Chamberlain act.

You are an utter failure. You are a surrenderer.

Get lost.

Perhaps it’s premature to suggest that the uprising has succeeded in visceral change in Iran. You confuse pragmatic understanding of Shi’a Politics with ghoulish optimism for failure.

Shame on you for being such a pollyanna in the face of events which you know little.

I was in Afghanistan with Tajiks back in 1991/92 – watched an entire family pull the limbs off a Russian soldier for sport – then play futball with his head wrapped in linen.

Americans lack a good understanding of the fact that the beastial behavior of Shi’a Islam towards all creatures, in order to usher the arrival of their Messiah (Mahdi) has no bounds. If you understood Shi’a eschatology you would comprehend just how silly you retort sounds.

The Mullahs will win this – thier goal if control of Ummah…a few hundred “terrorists” will not stand in their way.

With regard to crosspatch’s understanding of China…again a pollyanna approach. Woa hue shua yidyar puthonghua – I have been to China…and I have met many Chinsese Generals… whose children go to school in California…and whose elderly family members get free housing and health care in USA.

If China was so effective at being a responsible partner on the world stage, their own leadership would stay home with their families…instead they find safety and care in America.

sometimes people prefer to see the the world as they want it to work…others see it for what it is…a struggle among men…often the most evil of men.

You seem gouhishly optimistic for failure. Shame on you. Really,

My company regularly brings our employees from the China office to our headquarters for meetings on new product development, planning for growth, etc. We have had no trouble to date with anyone traveling here. That was unheard of before those troubled times. As China and the Chinese people grow wealthier, they are taking tourist trips abroad. Mind you it is still a trickle and most of the people are still very poor by our standards, but there are also more who are joining what we would consider to be the middle and upper classes.

If I had to choose between living in China or Iran, I would take China.

It certainly is not. Have you been there recently? We have a major part of our company located there. It is most certainly NOT the same as it was any anyone who says it is has about a 100% chance of not actually having any dealings in or with China before and after that event.

You might want ask the people who celebrated Qingming for the first time since 1949. I deal with China and have colleagues in the company I work for in China who I work with on a daily basis. I worked with China before that event on a much more limited basis but did a lot of work with Hong Kong. Things are VASTLY different today.

You commentary has no factual basis – China is the same as it was prior to Tianemen Square sit-in. Censorship has escalated, uprisings are ferociously put down, and Communist Party controls country with the PLA. The only thing that changed is the amount of neon in the larger cities creating a facade of progress. Peasant uprising will mbe met with hte same heavy fist as is being demonstrated in Iran. Nothing changed in China other than the populace is too afraid to repeat the sit-in.

When this is all over, the Iranian people will be too scared to do this again…and it sends a message to other despots around the world that fomenting unrest to cull troublemakers can readily be done without UN, EU, or USA intervention.

Human rights matter little when the political will of nations lack sack to truly be meaningful and helpful to the oppressed. Are you willing to risk your life for Iranians?

I differ with your assessment – History is on the side of those who wield fear and force. Look at us with Obama.

While China was ruthless in their crackdown, it changed that country forever. China was never the same after that and there has been no going back. When a government resorts to slaughtering their own people, it is over. No government stands in the same form for very long after then begin to kill their own main cultural group. Sure, some countries have been able to single out an ethnic group for “cleansing” and get away with it. But none survives slaughtering their own primary ethnic group for very long.

It is my personal belief that this is an intentionally staged ruse by the ruling Ayatollahs to gather a list of all military personel and community leaders who cannot be trusted in the event war in Middle East breaks out. If you are going to war you had better make certain your C3 is aligned to the bitter end.

This is only getting started. They’ll gladly kill Rafsanjani and all of the other Ayatollahs who oppose delivering $100 Billion worth of Oil & Gas to China. Ahmadenijad willl kill every child in Iran if they need to – Ahmadenijad is doing this to bring the Messiah (Mahdi) to our world.

The man is a kook with a Nuke….this will not end well.

I hope he’s not expecting actual physical support from chickenhawk Americans!

We have to side with the people.

What about the decent people of Iran who don’t want their children to turn out like vulgar rappers or Britney Spears? You don’t care about them. You just want everybody on Earth under the Hollywood/MTV/American cultural reich.