Have US Marines murdered in Beirut been forgotten?
Published: 24 June, 2009, 14:33
Edited: 20 December, 2009, 01:41
Some in the US and the West have painted Iran’s opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi as a beacon for democracy, but he has a darker page in his biography, marked with the blood of Americans.
Mousavi is what the Iranians used to call a "moderate". Now he is what the Iranians call "a US/British puppet". 25 years ago the US called him a "terrorist". Now they see him as the focal point of an agreeable resistance movement. Everything is relative. Mousavi is a moderate by Iranian standards (if he were a full-fledged liberal the clerics never would've let him be on the ballot), he was a state-supporter of terrorism by American standards (and of course America is terrorist by Iranian standards), and he is/was the focal point a resistance movement against a regime with which the US is in a reciprocally hateful relationship. If the resistance movement actually succeeded with Mousavi directing it, the West would likely find the result a bit anti-climactic. However, the resistance movement isn't moderate, or at least it is not only moderate. It has a strong liberal component to it with which the West could have a good relationship.
The article is good thus according to USA today from Aug. 1, 2009 'A long-awaited federal study finds that an estimated 32 million adults in the USA — about one in seven — are saddled with such low literacy skills that it would be tough for them to read anything more challenging than a children's picture book or to understand a medication's side effects listed on a pill bottle.' These people do not sit at home for they cannot read nor grasp text for adults. The question is: how many of them work in White House?