How Jacko Helps the Mullahs
source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-26/will-michael-jackson-doom-iran/?ci...
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The jokes popped up almost immediately that Mark Sanford was the luckiest guy on earth after word broke that Michael Jackson had suffered a heart attack. But the notion that Jackson's death, which preempted virtually all other news coverage on the cable networks last night, is sucking up media attention from other matters carries a dark edge to it as well. National-security experts are warning that without sustained attention on Iran, its repressive tactics could grow more deadly in the coming days.
The Jackson story, paired with Farrah Fawcett's death and Sanford's own scandal, “without a doubt” poses a danger in Iran, according to Michael Rubin, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and former Bush administration official.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Rubin said the issue was already a hot topic among his colleagues in the Middle East.
“To put it this way, the gods are not in favor of hope and change,” Rubin said.
“Unfortunately in Iran people are going to prison, but when a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it, the pressure goes away.”
Rubin cited Sudan as an example of where international pressure, encouraged by heavy media coverage, helped force the government to significantly reduce violence.
“It's a sad commentary that celebrity still trumps national security in news coverage, but that’s the world we live in,” he said.
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idealist
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i refuse to accept that " thats just the world we live in"
i know we as americans, over hear in america, can still do little more then give are deepest sorrows. but for what?!
at first were over there trying to reform the place and now were staying out of it?!(we have troop there right?)
i know theres alot of factors to this that i dont know about but damn!america has ADD but dont worry, the medicine for it is in the recycled piss water we drink.
sigh... only time will tell... - 2 years ago
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idealist
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anti_idiocy_numerodos
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idealist:
"I i know we as americans, over hear in america, can still do little more then give are deepest sorrows. but for what?! "
So you're American, eh? Ahem.
- 2 years ago
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anti_idiocy_numerodos
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Sumbodyswatchin
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idealist:
Well if you know that there are other factors you are unaware of then kindly shut your mouth until you know what you're talking about. You clearly have internet access, so go educate yourself!!! bone up on the history of prior US involvement in Iran then come back and give a cohesive and informed comment.
This is a major problem in this country. People living in utter ignorance and spouting off anyway! FUCK ME! And it's willfull ignorance to boot!! You know that you know nothing, yet do nothing to solve this dilema. Again i say FUCK!
PS Try to communicate in english next time. It's a stupid languange but your flailing about in grammatical squalor just adds to the transparency of your diluted intellect.
- 2 years ago
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Sumbodyswatchin
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anti_idiocy_numerodos
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Just shows that people don't really care. If they are so fickle that their political attention can be attenuated by the apolitical demise of someone they did not even know personally, then they never had much of a moral investment in the political event in the first place. Moreover, the public display of mourning is much greater here than it is for genocides. To me this is a powerful example of how most people are of bovine intellect, and with the morality of jackals.
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anti_idiocy_numerodos
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ras_menelik
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well he is also helping cover what happened in Honduras.
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ras_menelik
