FRUSTRATION

Mexico vs Canada

Mexico and Canada are closer to adopt you. However, I am tired of the bull from the Mexican political system myself. All countries have issues. I agree with Donyazdi in that we need to take responsibility. We need to have our voices heard in the US political system. Leaders can be put into place and taken out of their positions by the people they govern.

BE YOURE OWN LEADER

WHY R U LOOKING FOR ANSWERS THROUGH THESE PEOPLE .U R BEING TOO AFFECTED BY POLITICS ,THAT WILL NEVER GET U ANYTWHERE DARLING (ALL POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT) ,INSTEAD OF CHANGING NATIONALITY I RECOMMEND DOING SOMETHING POSETIVE TO CELEBRATE YOURE CULTURE ,U R RUNNING AWAY FROM YOURSELF .BOTTOM LINE U HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT OTHERS DO ,SO GIVE UP THE NEED TO CONTROL AND U WILL FIND HAPPINESS

Right

I actually do have a cat, William and do sift through it's turd every day. At least evey day until my wife gets back from her trip!!

I must say that except the stink, they are very different. I know what the cat eats and know what his turd is like, how much it is, and pretty much what I'm gonna find. Politics, I don't know what kind of shit I'm going to deal with. All I know is that it is "shit", as I mentioned, it smells like bull shit and looks like bull shit, it's got to be it.

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No director no good movie

To understand what's going on in Iran and what will happen from now on we should accept and understand a reality. That reality we call 'revolution' that took place in 1979. But those who really made it happen, those who brought the nasty islamists to power in Iran. do not regard the own job as a revolution (obviouly!!) Only when we really see the international conspiracies that shape the world we can clearlr start seeing the hidden hand behind the events. Things started to become noisy, when the product the hidden powers once implemented in iran, simply expired. From that moment on, they were left on their own, nobody told how to behave or what to do and then they (the arabo muslim mafia in iran) started acting on its own and the result: well you and everyone else on the planet can see it now, by looking at ahmadinejad and others in Iran. They are not Arabs, they not Persian eitherm so what are they? They seem to be an artificial temporary patch, product or item, too worn out to perform properly and their masters and owners have decided to replace the entire item as opposed to the ussual 'temporary patch'

american grammatical expert:unusual rhetoric and cat turds

sifting through political jargon can be a lot like scooping cat turds, huh? seems as though whenever our country makes a stink about 'terrorism' or about, well...any other nation there is always alteriar motives. as far as not making headlines and keeping your head in the sand to avoid the glare of global economics, you simply can't avoid all the cat turds. i think we put iran in a media spotlight because we like to fuss'n fued whenever we don't get our way or don't understand something. which means that you don't need anything from us, and we can't directly make a killing(lot of money) off of iran and it is unsettling for our leaders and their agenda. and in america, the media spotlight has blinded us all,so now all we see are blotches of bright colors set against pitch black...no 'real' light at the end of this tunnel. we simply don't see the globe glare and the U.S. with balt dismay. though we still smell our own cat turds...ok, i guess i just rambled myself out of energy. hello from Alaska!

Taking Responsibility

I understand your frustration, and many of us do feel it. But the proper response is not shirking your identity and running away. We should take responsibility for the political future(s) of our twin societies. Why? Because our access to both the Iranian and American cultures makes us uniquely situated to play a constuctive role in imporving US-Iran relations, standing up to American foreign policy, and fighting to improve Human Rights in Iran. We can make a positive difference, which means we should.

Besides, being an Iranian + American isn't all political. It's about our culture, our values and our sense of history. I feel proud to sing the poetry of Hafez, Rumi, and Etessami in one instant...and celebrate the works of Frost, Poe, and Dickinson in the next. I am proud to count both Mossadegh and Jefferson as a part of my political heritage. And the list goes on...

Yet I also feel a sence of responsibility to my family and country both here in America and back home in Iran.  We should view the Iranian-American impass as a challenge to be met, not a nuisance to be avoided.

Haven't we all begun to feel that way?

It's an old cliche, but it's an apt one when identifying the relationship between the government and the governed: "The citizenry are like mushrooms, feed them shit and keep them in the dark".

I recently questioned a very close acquaintance about this very same subject. He's a person with an intimate knowledge of the inner workings and reality of the US administration and the workings of world governments in general. I asked how and even if we will ever get to a place where there is at least the appearance of peace and cooperation in the general international community, his answer was a very solid "no, it's not good for business". Not for the US, Iran, The UK or whoever. That sadly, chaos, war and enmity were the fuel that keeps the world's governments in business and they will do or say anything to keep the status quo, no matter how seemingly ridiculous, ill-conceived or even "evil".

At 40, I hate feeling naive because I consider myself a learned realist and pragmatist, but I felt it then and have had a hard time shaking it even a month later.

It's not that they consider all of us stupid, they just consider a large enough percentage of us stupid enough to buy whatever they're selling and provide the smokescreen for their true motives which of course is profit and the propagation of their power.

PEOPLE! STOP YOUR WHINING!!!

I'm not exactly sure if there was a point to your writing & in some parts, perhaps because of poor grammar, i had trouble understanding what you were trying to say. Nonetheless, just like you, i am SICK and tired of hearing about Ahmadinejad and Bush. Even worse, im sick and tired of people arguing and so-called debating over it all. How dull. All these opinions dont change what is happening in the world, and dont do anything other than generate more words and comments from people who also just want to bitch and moan. Discussing politics and having a proper debate is completely normal, but writing stupid comments about what is happening in politics is just annoying, and a total dilution of all the GOOD and INTERESTING things that Iranian.com actually has to offer!

Amen brother, Amen. Most of

Amen brother, Amen. Most of us feel the same.