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rfmcdonaldRight here.
I am not a fan of the clericofascist regime in Iran. I hate how its founders hijacked a basically progressive revolution against a repressive absolute monarch to establish their own tyranny. I hate how the regime has resisted all attempts to render it human, to meet the demands of the educated proto-bourgeoisie that it created. I hate the radical misogyny and homophobia and anti-Semitism that it has established as law. I hate the secret police, and the idea of the Islamic Republic of Iran having a nuclear deterrent is scary.
Frankly, I'd like Ayatollah Khamenei to meet the same fate as Archbishop Darboy at the hands of radical anti-clerical revolutionaries, and I think that French-style laicism would be a good thing for Iran.
But still, I really, really doubt the United States' ability to avoid plunging a post-invasion Iran into horrific chaos, the sort that would make things worse for everyone.
¡No Pasarán! is as good a slogan as ever.
I am not a fan of the clericofascist regime in Iran. I hate how its founders hijacked a basically progressive revolution against a repressive absolute monarch to establish their own tyranny. I hate how the regime has resisted all attempts to render it human, to meet the demands of the educated proto-bourgeoisie that it created. I hate the radical misogyny and homophobia and anti-Semitism that it has established as law. I hate the secret police, and the idea of the Islamic Republic of Iran having a nuclear deterrent is scary.
Frankly, I'd like Ayatollah Khamenei to meet the same fate as Archbishop Darboy at the hands of radical anti-clerical revolutionaries, and I think that French-style laicism would be a good thing for Iran.
But still, I really, really doubt the United States' ability to avoid plunging a post-invasion Iran into horrific chaos, the sort that would make things worse for everyone.
¡No Pasarán! is as good a slogan as ever.
