Originally Posted by
11atsomto
I'm not quite sure what will be come of Iran next, I don't see a healthy secular social democracy with a robust economy built on the foundations of oil and natural gas. That being said I ll take my chances against it being less threatening than the Ayatollah with nuclear weapon capability. In the aftermath of Arabic Spring (note Iran is not Arabic) there were several Theocratic like governments that rose from the ashes most notably Egypt, which due to ineptitude, then gave way to another Spring and spawned the Military dictatorship which still exists today.
It’s an axiom as old as time itself, and it knows NO cultural bounds;
The downtrodden/oppressed/enslaved rarely want freedom more then to be the ones doing the trodding, oppressing, enslaving.
Originally Posted by
DogPit
Check out this bada$$ over here. Airline pilot and part of the administrations cabinet.
And boasts of an Ivy League education too!!!!!