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mooseandsquirrel Donating Member (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 11:24 AM
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Gene Lyons on Iran
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But how many could actually locate Iran on a world map ? To most, Iran and Iraq sound like Tweedledee and Tweedledum. But call it Persia, as Iran used to be known, and those percentages would likely drop sharply. Persians aren’t Arabs; as Farsi-speaking Shiites, they have little more sympathy for al-Qa’ida than Americans do.

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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 11:43 AM
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1. Thanks M&S
Gene Lyons is up there with Molly Ivins for clear eyed (not so) common sense commentary.
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