Comments on: A profound difference between the Iranian protests and the current Egyptian uprising

By: SADIE

SADIE — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:04:08 +0000

The leader of a long-outlawed Tunisian Islamist party returned home Sunday after two decades in exile (in the UK). http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gpsDTZPRn0q3rgKjJ_8IrN74n6ig?docId=5804911 p.s. This will not turn out well for Tunisia sooner or later. Europe been a notorious holding cell for the 'exiled' only to return them to country of origin and the results are not good.

By: stanley

stanley — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:06:14 +0000

#13,
The biggest US bureaucracy is the USDA (US Dept of Ag). Other than to say there have been crop failures they have said nothing, offer no solutions. This is another part of government that should be dismantled immediately. Their main purpose is to support Big Ag and the international grain traders.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:39:12 +0000

Danny, which means Global Warming is a good thing, regardless of what it is. Their attempts to stop it is equivalent to a crime against humanity. Then again, when has the Left ever not been committing crimes against humanity.

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:20:27 +0000

Fundamentally, I think it goes back farther than that. The useful comparison to me is Reza Khan and Attaturk.

Attaturk was ruthless in imposing a type of westernization he saw as internally consistent. Reza Khan, while personally ruthless in dealing with rivals, temporized in his approach: instead of establishing a republic, he deposed the Shah and declared himself Shah; and instead of secularizing the state, he maintained the primacy of Islam. In effect, Reza Khan created an Islamic-Western hybrid that unfortunately combined Islamic autocracy with western education, modes, and ties, and that ultimately could not survive.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:19:27 +0000

Yeah, Earl I know. Another factor is that there have been huge crop failures, tied to a world that is growing colder, not warmer.

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:08:15 +0000

@Danny: One of the factors in the rise of food prices is that we’re BURNING corn! To satisfy the watermelons and the Algores of this world, we’re making corn into ethanol instead of selling it on the world market. Thus the shortages and the rising prices. Of course, to the left humanity is a mass to be manipulated and practiced upon, not individuals with ultimate worth.

Lovely.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:16:39 +0000

The same thing happened with Hitler.

The issue is, if it was really true what they were saying about the evil Jews or the evil Shah, they might have a point. But the thing, if they were facing such evil, they would be DEAD on arrival. But they’re still alive and kicking, and that’s how they took power.

Inherent inconsistency in the rhetoric. Then again, the Left uses the same attack against Bush. He’s a fascist but he’s so un-fascist he can’t do anything about people bad mouthing him. Wow.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:14:52 +0000

The issue with Savak is that it wasn’t ruthless enough. They had Khomeini captured, alive, and stuck with the rest of the “political prisoners”. Instead of purging them, as Saddam or Castro would have done in the same situation, they let em go. So Khomeini ended up in exile in France, the Shah ended up dying outside Iran after abdicating, and Khomeini returned to Iran and took power after a long as hell exile. To him, at least.

Like most countries in that region of the world, they were trying to balance security with liberty. It wasn’t working well, but at least the Shah of Iran was making an attempt. The Left and their goon buddies the Iranian Revolutionary Shia wing lead by Khomeini, weren’t even trying.

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:37:57 +0000

I think it might be worth pointing out that history to the revolt in Iran is not was many think it is. The regime in Iran took the wrong path ay the begining and when things fell apart it was probably too late — the Shah’s son ws in that sense a generation too late.

Also keep in mind the Carter’s huge mistake was the way he handled the hostage crisis. What we’ve been paying for for the last 30 years is not the overthrow of the Shah, or the installation of the Khomeni’s regime, but Carter’s utterly disasterous bungling of the hostage crisis.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:28:48 +0000

Just got back from a short road trip and heard Larry Kudlow discussing that the riots breaking out in the Middle East and Africa have much to do with huge food price inflation.

According to Kudlow, world food commodity prices were up 36% last year. Those people are going hungry.

No word about this on the MSM (figures!).