I think President Trump will find a way to work with the Iranian people a pro-American ayatollah for a "regime mutation" that's favourable to american interests instead of an old-school regime change that could blowback...Do you have any thoughts on that?
That right there is an oxymoron.
Why?
We bombed their nuclear facilities last year where they were enriching uranium how were they days away?
That's what the POTUS said! Scientifically, to the best of my understanding, what the POTUS is saying makes sense...This is war. In warfare, bluffing is a mandate in Sun Tzu's The Art of War. I'm going to give you something: you can believe Trump makes mistakes, you can side with other people, heck you can even just refuse to have an opinion about the man, but I choose to see President Trump’s role in politics as part of a good God’s plan to protect good people from harmful influences. Part of my POV can be defended by using logic, data analyisis, science and readily available information from mainstream sources, another part you must choose a side and I choose Trump-led Washington, after prayerful discernment!
So now the president's morality matters to you.
My goodness you are old.Only you are pious enough to be the moral arbiter for all things political.
Alayman and I voted Samson for Judge.
mainstream sources, like Fox News?
That's the gist of the issue. I don't see anything good coming from imposing (which I don't even think is possible, anyways) a departure from clerical rule in Iran. Because you're correct in pointing out that a return to Shah-rule has a simple majority in Iran. But clerical rule has a relative majority when you think about it in sectors rather than individuals which is something here in the West we see all the time. An example would be Bush vs Gore: Bush's legitimacy rested on proportional vs individual representation because urban middle classes tend to be numerous, but we need other sectors: clergy, millitary, farmers, the rich, the poor...So a referendum could be seen as "tyranny of majority" which is why for good constructive engagement between the West and the Islamic World I'm betting on progressive islamic clergy in Iran. Mahmoud Amjad is an exiled ayatollah which could influence. So, progressive clergy: a bridge between progressive urban elites and middle classes who want change and rural backbones of the deceased Ayatollah. Some hardline supporters of the deceased ayatollah would refuse to listen to the gay lawyer from Tehran, but the young Rūḥānī from Isfahan who's a closet Sorush fan talking about God and money while avoiding frontal confrontation with the millitary (it's an art, being progressive clergy in a dictatorship without getting in too much trouble...) would be given hospitality. Iran isn't Venezuela, but as soon as Washington realized the chavistas weren't going anywhere for the timebeing, but that a regime "mutation" can be induced without excessive externalities nor blowback, things started changing with current acting President Delcy Rodriguez. I like avoiding "epistemic pride" when engaging in the study of International Relations. Some things which seem completely natural for us as westerners, we need to understand people from other cultures are just different. Some americans get a heart attack when they see Danish taxation, but polling consistently shows that about 7 out of every 10 danes are "satisfied" with paying around 45%–50% in total tax, provided goverment services remain top-tier. This is something I just need to keep bringing on: world peace requieres that we put ourselves in the other people's shoes. White people don't even get along with each other: if you want to try my theory, just yell "Basque people are awesome!" at a regular pub in Madrid or "Quebéc is a nation!" in Toronto or "Texas is better than California" anywhere in the USA. Once we understand what makes us different, and that sometimes you just have to order pineapple ham pizza when some friends come over because they like it and there's nothing "wrong" with it, we can move forward better.
Why are you assuming I favor Fox News over BBC, The Guardian and AlJazeera? For the record, my go to news source for domestic issues in the US is usually USA Today and American Broadcasting Company. Yahoo! news and AOL news too, but that's just habit...
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