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[fpb]

Hamas' victory is a disaster. In spite of all the hopeful chatter we keep hearing from all sides, it shows that the majority of Palestinians want peace like they want a third nostril. Added to Iran's greed for the atom bomb, it throws a very, very dark shadow across the near future.

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[kikei.livejournal.com]

most people don't agree with me when I say that I think Ahmedinijad (and it's a shame, but I don't think I even care if that's the right spelling of his name) really needs to keep his mouth shut and to use his head once in a while. To us, Iran holds a great deal of religious significance, but his actions and declarations only make me fearful *sigh* he's going to ruin his own country just because of this... gah, it's not even competition, it's just madness. the sad thing is that most muslims want to see it as a good thing, think of him as challenging the West but I think he's sitting on his own time bomb.


and here, we insert the eternal line: why can't we all just... get along?


-Kiks

[fpb.livejournal.com]

In sane hands, the atom bomb is a guarantee against war. It is significant that since Pakistan and India exploded theirs, there have been more steps taken towards actual peace between the two countries than at any time before. That is because there are enough sane people in the leadership of both countries to realize the meaning of nuclear war - India would be crippled (and all her hopeful economic growth annihilated) and Pakistan destroyed, to nobody's advantage. The trouble is that I have to seriously wonder whether Ahmedinajad and his circle are sane. And it really is a matter of "him and his circle," because in the year that has passed since his election, he has been expelling every possible opponent from every position of power and replacing them with his men. And Ahmedinajad has not only spoken of "wiping Israel off the map"; he has actually said that he can see the day when we will exist "without Israel and the United States" (quote). I feel sure that Chirac's recent threats against "any country that would use weapons of mass destruction against France" were aimed at him, and that suggests that the briefings he received from the French secret services were even scarier than what we get to hear.

[kikei.livejournal.com]

haha, you should hear my mum (who hates politics with a passion and refuses to even bother with sch matters) speak about the Iranian leader. She thinks he's barking and will ultimately end up destroying Iran. the probem with hardliners like him is that they often have one-track minds - they do not realise that the peoples of the countries they abhor also include some of their own. Someone like my friend Mehda (who has just completed her communications degree - and majored in journalism and film & video) would love to return to Iran (she was born there but grew up in Norway) but she can't simply because she's terrified of what it's turning into. If Iran continues on the path it's on, then the only thing that we can be sure of destruction and loss from every side. And she's just one person, but it's pretty much what a lot of people think. Not like anything could be done right now, though, even if the majority of Iranians did not agree with Ahmedinajad's views - he has demonstrated that he only seems to see what he wants to see. His remarks, while understandable to a certain extent, are not justified in my view.

-Kiks

Yep.

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

Alas, so much work gone to waste.

And I figured it would happen this way. Damn it all.

Democracy is a double-edged sword. Often, it's a crapshoot.