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Without a statement of support for the protesters from the US, the movement will die a quick death.




The whole reason he doesn't say something is because if he backs one of the candidates, that'll piss off enough Persians that Odumba's candidate would probably lose.

That whole region is fiercely independent. They deeply resent outsiders trying to manipulate things. My enemy's enemy is my friend. And, a friend of mine has a t-shirt with "Infidel" written on it in Farsi.

Iraq was entirely different. A nationally acknowledged sociopath had been running that country for a couple of decades. As for that aspect of the whole Iraqi/US issues, Iraq had already acknowledged they couldn't do it themselves.