Iran blog reacts to Bush

The Guardian published a famous Iranian blogger, Hossein Derakshan's post worrying that US intervention won't bring peace.

But some of the reply posts to the Guardian's story are also revealing:

As an Iranian student i'd say Iranians are love President Bush. President Bush will not attack Iran he has promised moral support for students. The people of Iran strongly support President Bush. It's the radical islamists who hate him. They're very small minority in control of government.
Comments posted by: Davoud Rezai at January 21, 2005 10:19 PM

Only the Ayatollahs, Hezbullahi and Hard-line Islamists hate President Bush in Iran. Everyone else loves him. The NY Times

Funnily enough, the one country on this side of the ocean that would have elected Mr. Bush is not in Europe, but the Middle East: it's Iran, where many young people apparently hunger for Mr. Bush to remove their despotic leaders, the way he did in Iraq.

An Oxford student who had just returned from research in Iran told me that young Iranians were "loving anything their government hates," such as Mr. Bush, "and hating anything their government loves." Tehran is festooned in "Down With America" graffiti, the student said, but when he tried to take pictures of it, the Iranian students he was with urged him not to. They said it was just put there by their government and was not how most Iranians felt.

Iran, he said, is the ultimate "red state." Go figure.
Comments posted by: Arya Bakhtiar at January 21, 2005 10:21 PM

Neville Chamberlain appeased the governments of Hitler and Mussolini, and attempted to do the same with Stalin's. He failed miserably.
Bill Clinton tried to appease North Korea, offering it money, assuming it would tow the democratic line. Subsequently, this money was plowed into nuclear weapons programs.
As is obvious, Clinton failed miserably.

In a post 9/11 world it is no longer satisfactory to merely talk with governments, hoping that what wouldn't work ten years ago would work now.
The neoconservatism of George Bush, Condoleeza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz is the most pragmatic and suitable solution for tyranny in the twenty-first century.

Why do all the boorishly loquacious leftists refuse to adopt it?
Comments posted by: Irving Kristol at January 22, 2005 12:13 AM

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