EPT80 Lashes for 'Immoral' Iranian - Page 8
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.MistiK
Netherlands347 Posts
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MoltkeWarding
5195 Posts
A combination of sanctions and sweeteners managed to get them to completely give up on their nuclear project. North Korea has been under sanctions from the beginning, the additional sanctions raised last year in the UN were largely ineffectual. North Korea got everything it wanted from development of nuclear weapons: direct talks, unilateral and unconditional aid, diplomatic recognition and the relaxation of sanction and normalization of relations. Contrast this position with Libya, which dismantled its nuclear programme unilaterally and got fair words and next to nothing in compensation. Iran is perhaps the middle-eastern country with the largest grass-roots individuality potential, reigning regime aside, belligerent language against it props up the nationalist agitators like Ahmadinjad, who would otherwise be seriously weakened politically by the economic inflation presently sweeping the country. IMHO they still live 500 years back in time. when u think about it the Inquisition did exactly that and much worse in its days. whenever u let the church get power thats when the problems start.for good or for worse the concept of democracy is far from the minds of those people simply because of their religion . That's either a very narrow definition of either religion or democracy. Tocqueville for one saw the flourishing of the Catholic religion in a democratic society. Never mind. Iran is not Afghanistan. The people are relatively forward and open-minded. Their way of life too, is closer to ours than say- the way of life in Saudi Arabia. by definition people advocating for things like the death penalty for gays, prohibition etc are not 'mainstream' in the U.S. but that doesn't mean they don't exist or have considerable influence. look at Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell for example. Does anyone seriously listen to those quacks? If Bush cannot hold his own in congress, what chance would Pat Robertson have? Even in the puritanical settlements, when the laws of the colonies were literally plagiarised from Leviticus, the high civility of the New English colonists meant that few ancient laws have been applied as humanely as they were 400 years ago on American soil. The origin of America was puritanical (and there is still a puritanical streak in the spirit of the nation,) not barbaric. | ||
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Wizard
Poland5055 Posts
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KwarK
United States43061 Posts
On August 29 2007 04:11 Wizard[pl] wrote: I'll be honest. This is disgusting in our view, but we have to be tolerant of their culture. Why? It's a repressive culture which denies basic human rights. | ||
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lastshadow
United States1372 Posts
However amazing. | ||
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drug_vict1m
844 Posts
i call that FUCKED! | ||
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marquis
United States109 Posts
HELL NO. | ||
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FreeZEternal
Korea (South)3396 Posts
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