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Walking past the wall-o-tvs I see that Ahmadinejad "threatens retaliation if Iran is invaded". Coming home, I see it's absolutely everywhere.
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 11:57 PM, May 14, 2007
fev had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Interesting thing about Ahmadinejad's "threat" is that it has two exclusive and exhaustive conditions and is thus pretty easy to figure out:
1) You attack Iran
2) You don't attack Iran
Compare Cheney's "we won't let you dominate this region" (delivered from a carrier that probably matches Iran in strike aircraft all by itself), which is sort of the moral equivalent of "you look at my girlfriend funny again, I'm gonna punch your lights out."
In honor of A.J. Liebling, who first asked why it was that management always "offers" and labor always "demands," howbout we trade verbs in Mideast stories for a week? Everybody in or friendly with NATO will "threaten," and the natives will all "promise" or "caution."
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