Is Iran coming in from the cold?

[Formaldehyde]

When I am clearly stating that I think it is absurd to be using human rights violations as a basis to bring economic sanctions against Iran when there are countries "friendly" to the US which are far worse?

 

[DemonicAppleGuY]

When I am clearly stating that I think it is absurd to be using human rights violations as a basis to bring economic sanctions against Iran when there are countries "friendly" to the US which are far worse?

Are you saying we are using it as a basis to bring economic sanctions against Iran and that we shouldn't?

Or are you saying we aren't using it as a basis because we shouldn't?

I'm really not sure here.

 

[Lord Baal]

Are you saying we are using it as a basis to bring economic sanctions against Iran and that we shouldn't?

Or are you saying we aren't using it as a basis because we shouldn't?

I'm really not sure here.

That's because he isn't "clearly stating" anything. He's making a bunch of unrelated points, connecting them only in his mind, then expecting you to know what point he thinks he's making, even though his posts are so bereft of substance as to enable multiple interpretations.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Are you saying we are using it as a basis to bring economic sanctions against Iran and that we shouldn't?

Or are you saying we aren't using it as a basis because we shouldn't?

I'm really not sure here.

Have you not read any of the discussion leading up to that post so far?

Not only have I not stated "we are using it as the basis to bring economic sanctions against Iran and that we shouldn't", I have also not stated "we aren't using it as a basis because we shouldn't".

Instead I was responding to caketastydelish's assertion that Iran should face economic sanctions solely for their human rights violations by mentioning that there are far worse countries than Iran in this regard which the US government has not treated that way. That some of them are even our supposed "friends". I was pointing out that it would be extremely hypocritical for us to do so.

That is all I stated, nothing more and nothing less.

 

[DemonicAppleGuY]

I see.

 

[Borachio]

Here's an interesting piece of double think from Netanyahu.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24395917

Israel's prime minister says Iranians "deserve better" than their current government and that their lives could get worse if it gains nuclear weapons.

In an interview with BBC Persian, Benjamin Netanyahu warned: "If they get nuclear weapons this brutal regime will be immortal, like North Korea."

Unlike Israel, I suppose, which seems to have avoided becoming "immortal" somehow. By "immortal" he simply means it becomes self-perpetuating?

 

[Formaldehyde]

Not to mention that the Christians and Muslims in Israel "deserve better" than his own government themselves.