Mays Street & Old Settlers Park
Don't Compare Apples to Oranges
RECEIVED Mon., June 29, 2009
Dear Editor,
Re: “Revolution in Our Own Streets” [“Postmarks” online, June 29]: Mike Rieman incorrectly conflates past (deplorable) U.S. intervention with current organic protests.
Iran has far greater problems than the U.S. Peaceful demonstrators are shot at; bystanders are killed. Trying to compare this to American political suffering is ignorant at best and deliberately deceitful at worst.
Trying to whine away the brutal oppression the common Iranian suffers by comparing it to the American struggle against "corporate America" is sickening, even granting the horrid control consumerism has over American culture. Supporting true Iranian democracy and further scrutiny to our own international congress should be welcomed, not deplored.
Re: “Revolution in Our Own Streets” [“Postmarks” online, June 29]: Mike Rieman incorrectly conflates past (deplorable) U.S. intervention with current organic protests.
Iran has far greater problems than the U.S. Peaceful demonstrators are shot at; bystanders are killed. Trying to compare this to American political suffering is ignorant at best and deliberately deceitful at worst.
Trying to whine away the brutal oppression the common Iranian suffers by comparing it to the American struggle against "corporate America" is sickening, even granting the horrid control consumerism has over American culture. Supporting true Iranian democracy and further scrutiny to our own international congress should be welcomed, not deplored.
Thomas Keller
