(03-14-2026, 07:51 AM)Ninurta Wrote: As opposed to... what?
Is it your contention that fundamentalist Moslems like the Iranian Mullahs would suddenly, randomly, and spontaneously start obeying the rules of civilized warfare, after nearly 1500 years of ignoring them, but now they see a video on X and suddenly scrap the idea to become civilized? Because some guy is bloviating on a stage? all those grand plans to join the modern human race are going to get scrapped by that?
If that's the case, it just leads me back to my original premise - they've got no interest in becoming civilized. It would be a pretty weak excuse for abandoning grand plans to join civilization.
It's really a pretty sad situation. Persia had some degree of civilization for nearly as long as Mesopotamia had it, and then the Moslems invaded and took over, and those couple thousand years of civilization were thrown out the window. Then Persia - as Iran now - starts the slow climb back up to civilization, and BAM! the Ayatollah takes over again in 1979, and the whole climb was shot to hell, back to square one.
If they are eliminated, then Iran / Persia has a fighting chance to claw their way back into the modern world. If they are not eliminated, then the country stays in a stagnant doom.
It's sad to me that so many folks around the world are arguing and fighting so hard to support the murderous, authoritarian ayatollahs... who are stuck in the 7th century... and keep regular Iranians outside of the civilized world thereby.
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Most other major world religions have gone through a reformation of some sort, in other words, they have moved with the times. Islam is the one religion that hasn't, even though there was a glimer of it pre 1978/1979.
The bigest mistake in all this, and a "putting the cart before the horse" was Trump saying "help is on the way"..... and then did nothing.
So, around 40,000 Persians rose up and were slaughtered by the Iranian regime.
Any remaining Persians will be keeping their heads down, as they are.
Trump and Pahlavi lost 40,000 people, who would still be alive to bring about the regime change against the IRGC, if he'd acted on his words. He should have mobilised before he said "help is on its way".
The 40,000 deaths are on both their heads.
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Jane