On 7/18/15 8:24 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 2:01:23 AM UTC-4, J Burns wrote:
On 7/16/15 5:32 PM, trader_4 wrote:
From the LA Times:

"Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told the nation's
president Thursday that some of the six world powers were not to be
trusted to implement the nuclear deal they reached this week with
Iran..

He did not say which of those nations - the United States, Britain,
France, Germany, Russia and China -- he was referring to. He has
often expressed distrust of the U.S. and its motives."

If he said not all those involved in the deal were to be trusted, I
don't hold it against him.

The point isn't that the Khamenei said that he doesn't trust some
of the countries involved in the deal. The point is that the libs
at the LA Times characterized Khamenei as having "often expressed
distrust of the US and it's motives. How nice. I mean, what's wrong with
these libs? He's called for "death to America", even while the
nuclear negotiations were going on. Do you hold that against him?
THAT is his real position, the libs are just sugar coating it,
instead of telling the truth.

Freedom of speech. When my nephews visited, they'd rush in the door all
excited, asking where I was because they were going to kill me. Their
rhetoric and their intentions were two different things.

Khamenie is cut from different cloth than Reagan. Khamenie never helped
malicious people make poison gas.

In the days of the Shah, an Iranian at college repelled me because he
looked bitter and withdrawn. More than once, I heard him mutter,
"Immigrants!"

One day I asked what he meant. He said, "People trying to be somebody
they aren't."

I thought, "These Iranians are okay!" He summed up my own alienation as
a Vietnam veteran. America was all about advertising and education,
instilling the ambition to pretend to be somebody else.

Alienation doesn't necessarily entail malice.