every once i look at pravda to see what they're publishing. it's been a while now since i have, maybe a year. this comment got me looking and it seems to have changed a bit [more]. not sure what it is. ironically, not the content, but in some weird tone -more westernized.

http://english.pravda.ru/topic/afghanistan-634

or entities that emerge from the United States of America. Believe me, all the Canadians I've met overseas, although they do hail from the North American continent, would decidely not want to be called 'American' or 'Americans.' And I seriously doubt anyone from South America or Central America would want to be called so, either. So, please, spare me. You knew exactly what I mean.

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read more carefully, and less defensively. he has a good point in there. peace

correct. Unless you want to 'splain me what I missed?

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moment that I should be lectured on proper usage of this term. I've spent a great deal of my life abroad and am very aware culturally and quite sensitive to its needs. As a matter of fact, I'd submit that any reader of The Agonist would agree with him and understand but still find it rather peevish. It's a point that just doesn't need to be made here.

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the Iranian opinion of Trita Parsi. I know I would. or Babara Slavin

Slavin, what an appropriate name. I'm not saying their not credible experts, I'm just saying look at their allied/aligned interests. they're highly promoted mouth pieces, which I automatically view w/ suspicion. I'm sure you do too.

I also view the Persians as having invented chess. I'd be looking for Bobby Fischer right now, before I went into negotiations w/ the Iranians. Do you think Holbrooke or Haas is up to the task?

...voices regarding US engagement with Iran. Slavin is now with the Washington Times [shudder] after many years with USA Today. Parsi is the head of the National Iranian American Council and it is a pretty well respected academic (IIRC he worked under Adjami and Zebig).

As to the Iranian opinion - I suspect there are some divergences between the official and popular views. Parsi hasn't been back to Iran in a number of years because of the government reaction [or fear thereof] to his work and Slavin, I don't know. I certainly haven't seen anything that would give basis for either of them being thought poorly of by the population generally (presuming they knew who they were).

“The absence of any US-Iran bilateral channel...may have the perverse effect of reinforcing Iranian interest in progressing in the nuclear realm so that the US will be forced to take it seriously and engage it directly." ~ Richard Haass

I am not sure we gave ourselves that 'name.' There was a time before World War Two when Americans abroad always identified by which state they were from, i.e. the United States, as in I'm from Texas, or someone from California, etc. . . but after World War Two the Europeans seemed (and I could be wrong) to just label us as Yanks or Americans. I think the Southerners took a bit of umbrage at this and took to the American label, as opposed to the 'Yank' one.

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