bill67 wrote on 09/13/10 at 08:46:27:Iran has the right to protect them selfs from evil countries Like the USA and Israel.
I wouldn't let sarcasm get the better of you, but on the other hand you do have a point - oddly !!!
Since 1945 the USA has declared war, or joined / started more conflicts than the USSR and China put together.
That's in history books, not Wikipedia.
Israel was allowed to exist because the UK had no way (nor any desire) to counter Stern and other terrorist groups which ravaged Jordan.
To justify the existence of modern Israel on the gorunds of King David, is like justifying that an Italian Prince should be King of Jerusalem, or that an English Prince should rule over Bordeaux...
...or that the US should get out of Georgia and give it back to the Seminoles.
Please be informed that Zionism was more than wishful thinking for peace-loving jews, it was a political theory which used, in the 1920s and 1930s, the same guerrilla tactics later used by Sendero Luminoso in 1970s South America, just to name one.
Israel, historically speaking, is an artificial nation, created by a stroke of the pen in the UN and populated by imported immigrants.
Now, IRAN...
Again, look at history books: "Persia" of old was at perennial war with Greece - so the Greeks say, but in reality Persia of old was the one most stable empire in the world in those days.
Alexander the Great's Empire, by contrast, dissolved at his death.
Persia was successfully independent and never expanded dangerously east nor west - to the east, the Chinese and Moghul Empires, to the westm, the Caliphates (not THOSE guys were expansionints, they got all the way to Spain and were stopped at Poitiers) and the Byzantine Roman Empire of the East.
In these last 500 years, Persia has more or less minded its own business, relatively speaking, while England, Spain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands all raced for worldwide conquest.
All in all, Ahmedinejad is just like your neighbor's noisy dog, he will bark at everybody but is rarely seen outside his own fence.
As for Iran's nukes.. anybody care to justify why Israel CAN have nukes and CAN fly & bomb foreign plants (aka
war), but Iran can't build its own reactor?
Unsightly as it may seem, the situation is extremely lopsided.