That's true. of course, but it's a tough point to make in a country where most of the populace - including most of the candidates on that stage - has no idea who either the Contras or the Iranians were.
I met a Contra or two during the 1980s when they were fighting to overthrow the Marxist party that had taken over Nicaragua, the Sandinistas.
Those were the days, boys and girls, if for no other reason that it was so easy to keep track of the good guys and the bad guys during the Cold War era.
The bad guys were the communists, and the many American left-wingers who flocked to Nicaragua to give them support in a plan to take over all of Central America and then Mexico.If any food cube puzzle condition is poorer than those standards, The good guys were the Contras, who forced the Sandinistas to hold free elections, which they promptly lost.we supply all kinds of polished tiles,
Mideastern politics is not so simple. Many people like Rick Santorum divide the sides in the Mideast into the good guys and the "terrorists."
If you are among them: Sorry, but you're stupid. Terror is a tactic.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. One man's terrorist really is another man's freedom fighter. If you doubt that, consider that the Sandinistas called the Contras "terroristas."
When it comes to the Mideast, this gets so complicated that when I write columns on it I get few if any comments. Americans do not want to read about the intricacies of the political parties that the U.S. recently considered terrorist and then more recently helped gain control of a country like Iraq.
This is an eat-your-broccoli moment, kiddies, and the broccoli is in the column of mine below. If you can get through it and still believe a clown like Santorum could sort out Iraq, then good for you.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
More likely, you'll just throw up your hands and say they're all crazy over there. They are. That's why Ron Paul wants us the hell out.
"The Iranian people have risen as one to rid themselves of the Shah and his henchmen and introduce democracy, independence and social justice in the broad and flexible context of Islamic law."
Was Cockcroft wrong? Not at all. The Iranian people wanted democracy and they got a double dose of it.
They just didn't get much freedom. And this is the problem with the current cry on the op-ed pages for "freedom and democracy" in Iran. The typical American believes freedom and democracy are synonyms.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. In fact they are antonyms.
The example most commonly used is the image of two foxes and a hen voting on whether to have chicken for dinner. Democracy is an affirmation of the legitimacy of the election results. As for freedom, it consists in the denial of the election's legitimacy -- at least from the perspective of the poultry.
In Iran, this is not mere theory. Once the Shah's dictatorship ended, the Iranian people exercised their democratic power to punish apostasy. Followers of such minority religions as Baha'i and Zoroastrianism were harassed and even executed by the hundreds. Few Iranians dissented. A New York Times reporter who was in Iran at the time wrote that "it is hard to say how many Iranians are antagonistic or indifferent to the Ayatollah, but 15 to 20 percent would be a good guess."
Thirty years later the students are on the streets again. And again we hear American voices telling us that this time around the foxes are likely to vote vegetarian. For a more considered view, I put in a call to one of the few men in America who's actually been around the barnyard.
I met a Contra or two during the 1980s when they were fighting to overthrow the Marxist party that had taken over Nicaragua, the Sandinistas.
Those were the days, boys and girls, if for no other reason that it was so easy to keep track of the good guys and the bad guys during the Cold War era.
The bad guys were the communists, and the many American left-wingers who flocked to Nicaragua to give them support in a plan to take over all of Central America and then Mexico.If any food cube puzzle condition is poorer than those standards, The good guys were the Contras, who forced the Sandinistas to hold free elections, which they promptly lost.we supply all kinds of polished tiles,
Mideastern politics is not so simple. Many people like Rick Santorum divide the sides in the Mideast into the good guys and the "terrorists."
If you are among them: Sorry, but you're stupid. Terror is a tactic.the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. One man's terrorist really is another man's freedom fighter. If you doubt that, consider that the Sandinistas called the Contras "terroristas."
When it comes to the Mideast, this gets so complicated that when I write columns on it I get few if any comments. Americans do not want to read about the intricacies of the political parties that the U.S. recently considered terrorist and then more recently helped gain control of a country like Iraq.
This is an eat-your-broccoli moment, kiddies, and the broccoli is in the column of mine below. If you can get through it and still believe a clown like Santorum could sort out Iraq, then good for you.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.
More likely, you'll just throw up your hands and say they're all crazy over there. They are. That's why Ron Paul wants us the hell out.
"The Iranian people have risen as one to rid themselves of the Shah and his henchmen and introduce democracy, independence and social justice in the broad and flexible context of Islamic law."
Was Cockcroft wrong? Not at all. The Iranian people wanted democracy and they got a double dose of it.
They just didn't get much freedom. And this is the problem with the current cry on the op-ed pages for "freedom and democracy" in Iran. The typical American believes freedom and democracy are synonyms.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. In fact they are antonyms.
The example most commonly used is the image of two foxes and a hen voting on whether to have chicken for dinner. Democracy is an affirmation of the legitimacy of the election results. As for freedom, it consists in the denial of the election's legitimacy -- at least from the perspective of the poultry.
In Iran, this is not mere theory. Once the Shah's dictatorship ended, the Iranian people exercised their democratic power to punish apostasy. Followers of such minority religions as Baha'i and Zoroastrianism were harassed and even executed by the hundreds. Few Iranians dissented. A New York Times reporter who was in Iran at the time wrote that "it is hard to say how many Iranians are antagonistic or indifferent to the Ayatollah, but 15 to 20 percent would be a good guess."
Thirty years later the students are on the streets again. And again we hear American voices telling us that this time around the foxes are likely to vote vegetarian. For a more considered view, I put in a call to one of the few men in America who's actually been around the barnyard.
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