Stupid Men and Brave Men

I just read two articles about Iran. The differences are striking. The first is by Mustafa Dominic, a financial analyst at a London hedge fund:

The American intelligence reports’ recent assertion that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 does not change anything about the current situation as long as it does not fundamentally change the minds of American policymakers. Judging from President Bush's dismissive response, this doesn't seem to be the case. The truth is, Americans do not need a pretext to continue their bullying of Iran, which is precisely why Iranians want to and in fact should build nuclear capacity.
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Because recent headlines in the American press about Iran usually revolve around her nuclear ambitions, the American public tends to forget the background of the conflict with Iran. It started roughly in 1953 when a coup d'état backed by America and Britain removed the elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq in favor of America-friendly Shah of Iran.

This clown is still whining about something that happened 54 years ago, when Bush was 7 years old. Mossadeq would have been overthrown with or without American help, but the lefties still can't get over it.

Mustafa, instead of living in a capitalist democracy like the UK, why don't you try living in Iran? Then tell us if you think that you want to trust the rulers of Iran with nukes.

Read about Iranian students protesting at Tehran university:

Holding banners demanding freedom and chanting slogans denouncing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian students on Sunday smashed through Tehran University's main gate.
In a two-hour demonstration, they called for the release of three students sentenced to prison on charges of printing anti-Islamic images in student newspapers — allegations they deny. For months, students have been protesting the regime's removal of professors who aren't sufficiently Islamist.

I recall during the cold war we had these armchair Marxists like Hanoi Jane, Jean Paul Sartre, etc., who praised the communist countries while living in comfort in a capitalist democracy. Now we have armchair islamists like Mustafa Dominic, who praise an 'islamic republic' while living in the comfort of a secular democracy.