Go for it, Antony and Alchemist, wish there was a lot more of you.
One is really begining to wonder what is really happening to our world,, with the US having changed so much in nature since those heady days of the Marshall Plan, even though we had Stalin knocking at America's doorstep.

It seems galoots like Cheney and Rumsfeld just don't give a sh#t for a peaceful answer to the problem, revelling in what is going on even now in Iraq, believing that big power will always solve the problem, as the US believed in Vietnam and eventually had to pull out in disgrace.

No doubt the mad pair could knock off Iran, but will we ever recover from it, not in our generation's time anyhow?

George C, WA - Bushbred

The author can't really be a writer can he? I don't think I've ever read such nonsense on this site, well no, that would be unfair to Irfan's articles.

Iran is nothing short of the major threat facing the world today. Forget China, they may have disgusting human rights, but they do care about their kids. Iran, as with all fanatical Muslim regimes, sole aim is to destroy Israel.

We've seen that even the Palestinian negotiators don't care about their people, shown in the disgusting corruption rates (a recent UN study showed that 1/3 of all corruption occurs in the Arab world! Not that it's a shock)and that it's more about saving face with other Arab leaders. Arafat was offered a state, with East Jerusalem as it's capital, but rejected it.

Surely a tactician would have thought, well, it's a start, we'll go on from there.

We've seen how the Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, & Syria, are held in refugee camps - not allowed out to work, can't buy land, and are only educated thanks to the generous west. Palestine is an issue only in the sense of saving face.

Arabs historically were very power driven, with a strong sense of authority, and enjoyment at humiliating the "other". This is why they built their mosque on top of the Temple Mount in the first place, and as a non-religious anglo, I believe a good start to the peace proccess would be for Muslims to say, "look, a thousand years back we conquered you and built a mosque on your holiest site just to spite you, we should demolish it".

Has the writer heard comments made by the Iranian thug-in-chief?

Or is he a Mossad agent?

This article is honestly not even worth the effort to respond, so I'll leave it at that then.

Oh, before I forget, I am not a Mossad agent, Zionist, or whatever.

However, I do subscribe to the punishment for Islamic terrorists of amputating their arms & legs - so they are just a torso, then experimenting on them with female hormones, selling them to a Taliban who bashes them, so they know what it's like.

Then, after that, brainwashing them into becoming a radical zionist to the point where they are willing to die for the cause!

The U.S. - Too cowardly to take on North Korea who turned back inpsections before Iraq was even invaded, too aggrssive to sit backl and think.

One can only hope that China or some other emerging power hurries up its act before the world implodes to the pure evil of the United States of America.

So Iran's all peace and lovely light eh? With a president who is as deranged as Kim Jong il no wonder we don't want them to get nukes. Islamophobia politically correct? How about objectively correct? With a religion that tells in no uncertain terms that infidels are to convert or die, that it is their 'duty' to impose their 12th century culture upon the world, that tells us it's the greatest honor to blow yourself up on a bus full of children, that tells us women are unclean morons that should never be allowed out of the kitchen, we're supposed to sit back and shrug, 'thats what they do'? The author seems to avoid an unpalatable truth - some cultures are superior to others, sometimes vastly so. At least the author realises that 'we live in an age of spin' - he's becoming quite the master

Look lets get this straight once and for all, Australia is its own country, an independent country, we won't be dragged off to war 10's of thousands of miles away on a whim. Unless our Commander in Chief says to go, right George?