To John R: I believe “displace” was one of the verbs in a list (killed, injured and displaced, if memory serves) that referred to the “millions”… But, hey, you’re really only swatting at straw men in your comments, anyway. You’ve been misled to focus your aggressiveness on one particular set of “bad guys” (and, yes, in many cases, truly, deeply reprehensible guys – no argument there) in order to make you ready to accept all the collateral damage to the innocents and your own culpability in their suffering — perhaps to make you willing to sacrifice all that you hold dear — and for what? Do you honestly find in your study of these matters that there is some sort of comic-bookish “good guys” and “bad guys” scenario at work here? I ask you to do nothing else but to read — from as neutral a source as you can find — an encyclopedia of some sort — the history of Iran in the 20th century. My sense in such matters is that the “side” that holds more power bears greater moral responsibility for how the conflict proceeds. In this case, in my estimation, that would be us.
