howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Roll on the Olympics and let's hope that team Iran have somewhere to return to...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_at_the_2012_Summer_OlympicsIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I think we do realise, Howard, but were waiting for you to open a thread on it.
A rather unpleasant task, I know, but many people in Britain don't want to comment on the Iran dispute, because we know it is being spurred on by the Iranian regime, and there isn't much, if anything, anyone here can do about it.
Oil has gone up 20% since December as a direct result, and that certainly bites at the western economies. Teheran isn't doing anything other than turning the temperature up and not down, and the USA know they cannot back down on Iran's challenge.
But all said, the economic downturn caused by the stand-off only adds to our woes here, and I doubt many people in the West give a tout for the economic problems of the people in Teheran, as we have enough of our own.
My guess is, the Iranian government is deliberately trying to create an economic collapse in the West, while portraying to their own people that the West is deliberately trying to do exactly that to Iran.
Anyone challenging the USA in such an open manner needs their head seen to.,,
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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In that report, Iranians were criticising the West and there's talk of many emigating from there - where to ? that's right, the West. So why criticise us ?
Roger
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I wonder, given the rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany in the thirties. Whether Germans who saw much to criticise and a great deal to fear about what Hitler proposed and what what happening around them thought it best to shun that movement or to join it?
What of the Irish, the Pole and the Slav and their affection for their mother-country? Were/are they all determined to stay and starve, or do they feel drawn to a perceived power-house-economy?
What of the UK as a whole. We have a duly elected Government [we could argue about the niceties there, but in the short term there is no alternative]. Should we now be supine and accept all that falls from the lips of Government? For Westminster is where the power lies and it is surely futile to do other than they direct.
In Dover, through these pages, is it obvious that all speak with one voice?
Some apparently accept that "Might is right." But we have heard that sort of thing before and it brings me back to where I began this post.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Not sure what that has to do with my post Tom, so it must be another.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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my interpretation of the original article was that most iranians abhor the goverment foisted upon them.
they are equally upset with us in the west as it is the ordinary people that are suffering with the embargo.