The extremist moslem behaviour you are seeing is a result of their
multigenerational practice of cousin marriage.
It does lower intelligence and leads to poor behaviour and emotional
eratic actions. Just like we see in the Shiite/Sunni bombings.

The odd thing is that an agricultural people raising animals should
know better, but perhaps they think that Allah will make an exception for moslems.

Bazz,

What about the extreme Western behaviour of dropping bombs on innocent men, women and children, blowing them to bits and destroying infrastructure - and giving it a title. if you please - "Shock and Awe"

Much more civilised, I'm sure you'll agree.

(And the maestro of these events, a certain George Dubya, is a wonderful ambassador for Western intelligence - don't you think?)

belly said "I too want better for Iran, but is that what the Arab spring is delivering? Is Egypt safe in democratic hands?"
Ha ha ha, Belly, you haven'y go a clue,have you. Egypt is in d.i.r.e. Straits; that is their 'democracy' is the Democratice Islamic Republic of Egypt. What a wonderful choice. Military dictatorship OR islamic dictatorship. There you go, true Illuminati democracy.

Bazz,
I don't know if Arab stupidity is the result of inbreeding or not. I do know that, after the defeat of Husein the Iraqies had Democracy handed to them on a plate and they were too stupid to embrace it. They prefered to fight their opposing religous group.

That is why I reckon there is no chance of the arab spring resulting in better governments in the Middle East. They will continue their religous conflicts.

We are better off to keep our troops home and spend the money on our own infastructure. Leave the Arabs to sort out their own mess.

You cannot fix stupid.

Poirot,
You forgot to mention how the Iraqy people rejoiced when the statue of Hussein came down. Bush was their hero then.

You are trying to infer that the people loved Hussein, which is quite wrong, they hung him.

Yanks killed very few civilians. Most civilians killed were by the Iraqies themselves with homemade bombs.

Banjo,

I'm not inferring anything of the sort. I'm pointing out that America and its allies invaded Iraq under false pretences. Saddam's downfall was celebrated. He was a tyrant - yet I haven't noticed the U.S. rushing to Zimbabwe to relieve the population of Mugabe. (yes, I know good ol' America can't be expected to police the world, especially if there's nothing in it for them)

What I'm saying is that the West, in the guise of America, might have more sophisticated ways of delivering its punch, but it's no less depraved than anyone else when it wants a piece of someone else's pie.