Damn your nuance.Originally Posted by Hax
Re: Turkish Spring ?
Damn your nuance.I believe I can largely follow what you're getting at.
However, I still find the comparison between the AKP and the Iranian Shi'ite clergy rather troublesome: apart from the points mentioned above, it portrays the Shi'ite clergy as a more-or-less homogeneous group of conservatives, which isn't really true (compare Ahmadinejad from 8 years ago with someone as Ali Shariati or (more recently) Mehdi Karroubi). There is an interesting letter that I will try to localise (there is an English translation) between two Iranian clerics talking about the social contract.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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