Comments on: Iran: odd timing of Saberi’s release

By: Horace Wells

Horace Wells — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:03:51 +0000

Wow, you’d think people here would be happy whatever but they just can’t pass up a chance to toss their sole two cent’s worth of foreign policy expertise.

By: vivo

vivo — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:59:49 +0000

The Obama haters lost a chance to disgorge in criticism.

I told you no one knows what goes on behind the curtains . . .

By: ella

ella — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:39:29 +0000

@ 21

They did not have to release her. Many other people in Iran did not get released although the accusations of spying/working for western interests/working against islamic republic were not true.
As for Iranian government – it does not care what is true or not true, it cares what is good for the government and at the moment the release was good propaganda for Antarinejad (:-)) government.

By: Oyster

Oyster — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:47:32 +0000

“They had to release her. Even the Iranian government didn’t think this was right.”

You really think they released her because it wasn’t “right”? One would then have to also think they would have released her if there hadn’t been so much publicity. Somehow, I’m not buying it.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:05:45 +0000

They had to release her. Even the Iranian government didn’t think this was right.

By: DavidN

DavidN — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:19:24 +0000

The Iranian regime was, is, and will continue to be a religious thugocracy until we somehow convince the Mullahs to leave power, or remove them. In the book “Reading Lolita in Tehran” there’s a particularly revolting sequence in which one of the author’s students recounts that one of her female friends was arrested on the street by the religious police for the crime of being too pretty (essentially the religious cops wanted to have sex with her, and trumped this up), taken to prison and raped repeatedly, and the finally she was executed (after a short show trial) for promiscuity. From what I understand this sort of behavior by the government and its minions isn’t rare, and no one does much to stop it.

The problem here is the risk/reward ratio in the Muslim world is rather lopsided. When/if a Muslim leader devises a way for his country to destroy Israel, and implements such a method successfully, that leader will quite quickly become not just a popular leader in his own country: every Arab and Muslim yearns for the day when the “Arab Nation” is unified, and the destroyer of Israel will be the one who leads the new country. Other leaders will (some of them anyway) protest, but they’ll be swept away by the mob. Then, of course, the rest of the world had better look out, because they’ll imagine they can conquer the world, and they’ll try. Not a pleasant thought, is it?

By: Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:47:12 +0000

A known sock-puppet and useful idiot, Greenwald is also a crashing bore.

Derek: foreign nationals? You meant to say freedom fighters, I’m sure, because Gitmo isn’t exactly teeming with Japanese tourists and touring polka bands. They are terrorists. In fact, that’s sort of the whole point; these are not uniformed soldiers fighting under a particular nation’s flag – they are unlawful enemy combatants who kill indiscriminately in service of their ideology. The belief that infidels like Derek, Lightnin’, Roger, even Glenn Greenwald either must be murdered or submit to slavery. Not to worry though, AG Holder may be able to get some of them released right here in America, maybe even your hometown. Keep those fingers crossed.

By: Anita Hope

Anita Hope — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:46:20 +0000

To all of you that write in such negatives regarding America and are living here ,” WHY “, return to your countries. I am refering to those that ran from
the failure of their countries to have a democratic way of life, as we have had, till you have infiltrated ours with your hatred & terrorist culture. Keep in
mind if you succeed in this direction you will destroy this safe haven you came too for freedom of oppresion. Have a peaceful life

By: Morton Doodslag

Morton Doodslag — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:42:50 +0000

Derek #15:

If I’d only known that Gitmo was filled with poor suffering al Qaida journalists like Derek did, I probably would have voted for Obama too.

Emboldened by their America loathing Master, the insane Left no longer bothers to conceal theor abject hatred for America. Equating Iranian actions incarcerating journalists and students with incarcerating terrorists rounded up on the battle field only reveals a sewage mind spewing sewage thoughts.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:43:29 +0000

@ 14

How is it not true? Does america not imprison foreign nationals indefinitely at places like Gitmo anymore?