Posted by:
Lot's Wife
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Date: March 24, 2019 09:45PM
macaRomney Wrote:
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> I agree Afghanistan and Pakistan are bad.
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> But Iran is really bad too. They just recently let
> women drive their own cars and not get hit or
> killed for that, and they hit girls with sticks if
> they show too much skin on the street.
As Tevai said, you are confusing two different countries.
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> Iran is
> always in the news because of their nuclear
> desires. And cuz they want to beat on Israel.
As I said, it is critical to distinguish between the Iranian government and the Iranian people. As I said in reply to the Caffeinated One, Teheran really worries me particularly given the extent to which the US is expanding Iranian influence in the Middle East. Angering a country and strengthening it internationally make for bad policy.
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> But what's most interesting is looking at the
> incomes by nation. What amazes me is that Israel
> households make ten times that of Iraqi
> households.
Uh, Iraq has been at war for 20 years. So there's that. And to anticipate your next argument, correct any comparison of Iran's per capita GDP by Purchasing Power Parity and not market exchange rates. That is what you were doing with Iraq and Israel, I hope.
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> Why would that be. Israel is a
> miserable awful piece of land, hot and dry. But
> yet these people are as prosperous or more so than
> we are in America or Europe.
Not true.
Israel comes in at 34-39th in the world relative to the US at 11 or 12. And the Arab world? Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE all beat the United States; and those three plus Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman all come in well in the top 20. So in the Middle East Israel is pretty much middle of the pack. About four European countries beat the US and a slew of them come in above Israel.
There are reasons to question whether those are the right metrics, but the place to start is with the facts.
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On Iran, more properly the Iranian people, they are about close to an American country as you can get in terms of valuing education, income, and individual expression. There are backward parts of the country, but in the cities you'll find extreme self-assertion--particularly by women. Yes, they must wear the hijab, but take a look at how they do so. They are about as far from the stereotype as you can imagine.
https://www.google.com/search?q=iranian+women+fashion&tbm=isch&source=univ&client=firefox-b-1-d&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjF8LvPlZzhAhVWqJ4KHS0nCO4QsAR6BAgHEAE&biw=1440&bih=725