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> I would like to comment - respectfully - I hope. I do believe death to America is the literal intent. You're not respectful, as you're insulting 80 million p
by Udik 7y ago
> I would like to comment - respectfully - I hope. I do believe death to America is the literal intent.
You're not respectful, as you're insulting 80 million people by saying they all want to murder you and other hundreds of million.
You're not being intelligent either, because you're wilfully ignoring the fact that literal translations from one language to another are incorrect.
Even Google translate is in fact smarter than you are: just paste مرگ بر آمریکا into it and see what it prints out.
> Further, I don't think the killing of Soliemani was intended to signal we intend to change the regime. I think rather it was asking a question ... It's time for Iran's leadership to give this era of zero sum foreign policy a proper burial.
Wait, wait. The Iran had an agreement with the rest of the world, all of it. It agreed to a very strict regime of inspections and halting its nuclear program in exchange for an increased freedom to commerce with the rest of the world. This was a win-win for all, the opposite of a zero sum game. Trump has reneged the agreement, against the opinions of everybody else, and imposed a complete economic embargo on Iran through sanctions on anybody who does commerce with it. It is chocking the entire country. This is a zero sum game.
What the US is doing is strangling a country of 80 million- a bloodless death but death nonetheless. And if the dying country kicks and struggles, you say "enough with the zero sum game"? Really?