Bavafa,

"Marg bar aamrika" does not help and neither does a lot of other stuff that the mullahs do when it comes with the "relations" with the West! Granted the other nations not on the list deserve to be there too, but they do not sponsor such street demonstartion and Friday prayers just to say marg bar aamrika. Only, they do it by sponsoring major attackes like 9-11, but it's what's out in the open that counts, not what's classified.

Ex_CoP,

I do agree whole heartedly, hence my comment

"The Islamic Republic of Iran rhetoric is condemnable by all means"

But to punish based on rhetoric and ignore the deed, in my mind, makes of a termendously stupid policy.

Just because it's America, doesn't mean stupidity is factored out: some recent and not-so-recent examples:

- Bush and Iraq war (major fuck up on the part of president Rove, I mean Bush)

- Most powerful country in the world with no national healthcare

- The move to abandon wallstreet regulaitons

- The move to abandon environmental regulations

- lack of job protection for women in the workplace (I'm a guy btw)

- The appointment of White Supremacists to key White House position(s)

- The appointment of racists to key Justice Dept positions

and so on and so forth.....

Ditto to all of that.

And not to forget,  the most and dearest to my heart, the Environment that once ruined it might be hard or impossible to recover from.