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i wasn't going to bother with this thread as will seems to have made the arguments that i would have up to this point.
but gee, ain't it strange how actual engagement seems to have produced more in a day than the bush-cheney approach did in 8 years?
all this with the unfortunate reality of ahmadinejad still being somehow in office.
but to be coherent about iran, you'd have to acknowledge the persistent gap between the public face of the internal regime and it's diplomatic actions. they're quite different one from the other. one of the iranian objectives behind the scenes for some time has been to get direct talks with the united states. that this is a problem for their internally-directed politics is self-evident if you know anything about how the revolution turned out and why it happened in the first place.