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Originally Posted by astralis
...you will have to show me where i said that. "had faith" in ahmadinejad? hardly. i think he's a tin-pot, socialist demagogue, and i have very little use for that ilk. i completely agree with you that his rhetoric, and his support for the crackdowns, make him untrustworthy.
having said that, however, actions speak louder than words. when push comes to shove, either in the form of foreign pressure, or domestic pressure from either above or below, a-jad folds. from his actions, we see that he follows by domestic political rules. while his talk on foreign policy is big and bad, i have heard this type of rhetoric before, both from past iranian leaders and countless other anti-US (and occasionally "pro-US", see the little thread where musharraf spoke in urdu in favor of the taliban after 9-11) tyrants...
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Astralis, since my machine went down and I lost my correspondence files I’m unable to point this out to you, so I’ll eat my words (gag…sorry lol!)
If I understand you right, you mean that this tinpot demagogue might not carry through on what he has said, I tend to disagree.
So far he has carried through on what he has said, the on going crackdown case in point.
If ( And that is a big IF!) if he and Iran is allowed to go nuclear, then there is no certainty he won’t carry through on his intimation to remove Israel from the face of the world.
To date his words and deeds have not given much credence to him being pragmatic enough to back down, and even if he is, then the hatred and xenophobia he has whipped up in the extremist factions of his followers might not let him.