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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 04:54 am
The LA Times reports:
Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
A possessive pronoun is missing in that sentence. Before “persistent”.
Support for a potential military confrontation with Iran was strongest among Republican respondents, among whom 76% endorsed the idea. But even among Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose the war in Iraq, 49% supported such action.
Numbers in favour of any type of military intervention might increase now that Hamas is elected. It’s all part of Rove’s plan …
- I don’t know. Perhaps, just perhaps – though this isa long shot – the general public can tell the difference between Iran and Iraq better than journalists? Iraq may be a flop in the battle ground of public opinion, but Afghanistan isn’t. The score now is 1-1; a tie.
Ehh, maybe an Iran invasion would make it 2-1 in our favour.
Though personally I think an invasion of Iran is a waste of money – Iran have far much more near-misses to an indigenous regime overthrow than say, Afghanistan or Iraq. A little fuel and Iran could, at best, be on its road towards a Persian democracy, or at worst, too damn instable that nobody can develop nuclear weaponry on the side.
I prefer if Syria was overthrown. I mean, Syrian food is a helluva lot better than Iranian…
- Rajan R—
Persian/Iranian food is top shelf cuisine, up there with French in my opinion! Alas, to do proper justice to it, one must plan a long leisurely lunch with lots of expensive wine.
Syrian food is simpler yet delicious, nutricious, and very heart healthy! The grilled meats (chicken, lamb, beef) are lean with the fat cooked away but still flavorful with aromatic spices. The grain and legume based side dishes, while (relatively) blander than say, Persian rice, have interesting textures and are filling without loading a person down.
In fact, I’ll be having some Syrian take away for lunch today to celebrate Friday: Probably a lamb kebob w/ tahini sandwich on flat bread—loads of fresh sliced tomato, onion, and parsley and a spinich pie on the side because I’m a glutton. Washed down with a minty iced tea.
Then I shall psychically will Chimpy to hit Baby Assad with a submarine based cruise missile. The Syrian fellow that makes my kebobs would support that, too.
For any Chicagoans on these boards, check out Pars Cove on Diversey (a little pricey) or the Iranian joints in Anderssonville for great, fairly inexpensive Persian. Great food for a date.
What were we talking about again?
- Personally, I think we should invade Venezuela. They’ve got lots of oil, they’re a lot closer, and their food is a lot better.Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 01 27 at 07:08 PM • permalink
- Although I love most of the mid-east and beyond’s cuisine, I have to say that while Syrian and Persian food is wonderful, my favorite war-torn cuisine is Afghani. In fact, Karzai’s family owns two great Afghani restaurants, both named Helmound, one in SF and one in Boston/Cambridge. Afghani food tends to be somewhat like Persian with a wee bit of Indian influence, yum! But if you want great mid-east cuisine try just about any Armenian restaurant in the LA area (I know, more of a caucas region, but the food is very similar). They use more lemon and garlic than the Lebonese or Syrians….
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Those darn Dutch neocons were placed in Palestine by Rove on purpose.
Rove, the Machiavelli of the 21st century. And we are all his puppets. And damn glad of it too.