Iranian Idiot:
“The international capitalist order is retreating… It is absolutely obvious that the age of empires has ended and its revival will not take place.” –Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his own re-election
Advice on Iran:
“What Obama needs is a rapid return to peace and quiet in Iran, not continued ferment. His goal must be to deflate the opposition, not to encourage it. And that, by and large, is what he has been doing.” –Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Robert Kagan
Former idiot sees the light:
“And then I saw the end of the [Vietnam] war. I saw us pull out, and then I saw the communists move in and slaughter two and a half million people in South Vietnam and Cambodia. And I saw the left that had precipitated this turn away, just walk away from it. … They didn’t take seriously the blood that they had been directly causing. … But I must say programming is very, very deep. And I didn’t really pull out of it for quite a while afterward. But that’s where the dime dropped and things started to happen.” –actor Jon Voight on why he became a conservative
