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[QUOTE="xmikex:587741"]Alright let's break this down [QUOTE]“Hollywood declares war on Iranians,” blared a headline in Tuesday’s edition of the independent Ayende-No newspaper.[/QUOTE] I wonder if Iranians will be surprised when everyone who reads this gives an irritated shrug and says to themselves "Jesus Christ, can these towelheads go 5 seconds without declaring war on something?" Are Arabic people as sick of hearing this as I am? I gotta know. [QUOTE]Still, it touched a sensitive nerve. Javad Shamghadri, cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the United States tries to “humiliate” Iran in order to reverse historical reality and “compensate for its wrongdoings in order to provoke American soldiers and warmongers” against Iran.[/QUOTE] In all fairness to the Persians (of 5th century BC... not the suicide bombing cunts of today) Xerxes was not a bad ruler at all. In fact he, and his father Darius were relatively compassionate rulers. When they'd take over a new territory they never imposed any governmental, religious, or philosophical beliefs on anyone. They let people run their states their own way, and believe whatever they wanted, so long as they paid tribute to the empire. This is in considerable contrast to the middle eastern worlds today which are notorious for imposing beliefs, lifestyles, and everything they can on whoever they can (most often by force) no matter how irrational, or how much people hate it. In fact, it's been argued that the only reason Xerxes is villified at all is because he burned Athens, and burned it out of a grudge. However, we're hardly talking about a reversal of history in a movie like 300. The Greeks were defending themselves, and they way that they went about doing it was amazingly heroic. It was that heroism, and determination on the part of the Greeks that was the inevitable downfall of the Persians, which I think is part of the real issue here. [/QUOTE]
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