The only sensible solution to the current crisis is to keep US and Israeli hands off the Islamic Republic, withdraw any military plan, suspend all financial aid to self-serving, ill-informed expatriate opposition groups, or those that discredit the legitimate oppositional forces inside Iran - and thus allow the democratic process to work itself out. This is not just the best alternative. This is the only solution - for any investment in the self-promotional promises of the so-called Iranian oppositional forces and their neo-conservative cohorts in major US think-tanks is a waste of taxpayers' money in the US and an affront to the dignity and agency of Iranian people themselves. If the international community at large has an issue with Iranians going nuclear, and it must, then it will have to wed that legitimate concern to the region at large, include Israel, Pakistan, Russia and the US (the four nuclear powers surrounding the Islamic Republic) in the equation, and subject them all to an identical application of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD28Ak02.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html