Magnificent photos of symmetrical palaces in Iran by Tilo Driessen.
Check out his incredible work of a country that rarely gets photographed anymore.
Photos of Rarely Seen Structures and Landscapes in Iran
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I do not support a war with Iran.
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Ron Paul nails the “foreign aid” issue. I linked to 4:24, but go back and watch the whole thing because his answers on Bernanke may intrigue you.
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Thank goodness the American people have a president firmly committed to starting World War 3
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Every Iowan that voted for Santorum must be the first to sign up to fight the war with Iran.
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My dad’s watching Fox News (I think it’s Fox - didn’t look), and I just overheard Newt Gingrich saying that Rick Santorum is a “genuine expert on Iran and foreign policy.”
Iran is not a threat
Now is not the time to start another never ending Unconstitutional illegal war with another country that isn’t a threat to our national security.
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It's The Occupation Stupid BY ROBERT A. PAPE
More than 95 percent of all suicide attacks are in response to foreign occupation, according to extensive research that we conducted at the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism, where we examined every one of the over 2,200 suicide attacks across the world from 1980 to the present day. As the United States has occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, which have a combined population of about 60 million, total suicide attacks worldwide have risen dramatically — from about 300 from 1980 to 2003, to 1,800 from 2004 to 2009. Further, over 90 percent of suicide attacks worldwide are now anti-American. The vast majority of suicide terrorists hail from the local region threatened by foreign troops, which is why 90 percent of suicide attackers in Afghanistan are Afghans.
Israelis have their own narrative about terrorism, which holds that Arab fanatics seek to destroy the Jewish state because of what it is, not what it does. But since Israel withdrew its army from Lebanon in May 2000, there has not been a single Lebanese suicide attack. Similarly, since Israel withdrew from Gaza and large parts of the West Bank, Palestinian suicide attacks are down over 90 percent.
The research suggests that U.S. interests would be better served through a policy of offshore balancing. Some scholars have taken issue with this approach, arguing that keeping boots on the ground in South Asia is essential for U.S. national security. Proponents of this strategy fail to realize how U.S. ground forces often inadvertently produce more anti-American terrorists than they kill. In 2000, before the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, there were 20 suicide attacks around the world, and only one (against the USS Cole) was directed against Americans. In the last 12 months, by comparison, 300 suicide attacks have occurred, and over 270 were anti-American. We simply must face the reality that, no matter how well-intentioned, the current war on terror is not serving U.S. interests.
Read the full thing.
Wow. Just… Wow.
—Shared by Elle.
Yup.
"The reality is that Iran is not a threat to the United States. Not even close. To the degree that conservatives actually believe that Iran is some great “threat” takes the Right straight back to the Bush era, when a zeal for spending cuts took a backseat to war fever. That some in the Tea Party are occasionally the loudest in desiring U.S. action against Iran makes the prospects for smaller government even dimmer.
Wanting to limit government and police the world simultaneously is a maddening yet enduring contradiction conservatives simply can no longer afford. Neither — quite literally — can this country."
Jack Hunter in “The GOP’s fever for war will destroy any hope of shrinking government.” (via hipsterlibertarian)
I should start watching The Southern Avenger again
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Liberty and Life: A few notes on foreign policy.
1. Here is a map of our country. Notice that we are not Israel. We are not the Middle East in general.
2. Terrorists attack the United States because the US government is in the Arabian Peninsula, as clearly stated by the former CIA chief Michael Scheuer.
3. The terrorists’ goal is to…
