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This is complete nonsense To criticise a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with...is not racist It's culturalist And this criticism seems wholly justifiable to me Oh ! There's the door bell. Must be the police...

Mr Hitchens you are making a historical causation argument while Mr Grrr is making a current threat argument. I would say these are not mutually exclusive. A regime can be simultaneously the product of Western interference and a genuine security threat. However both things being true does not resolve what policy response is correct. It simply means the situation is more complicated than either the "they had it coming" or the "they are pure evil" frame can accommodate. I would say the more precise question (which neither stance addresses) is whether the war that began on February 28 has made any of these underlying problems better or worse. On the available evidence the answer is worse on every measurable dimension. Which is, ultimately, Mr Hitchens' point.

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.