Tornado Alley (PROG)

[oldberkeley]

piss on their dead bodies and tape it,burn their Holy Book, kill their children while they sleep:they hate our freedom

Something that’s always stuck in my mind:

In 1980, in the midst of the hostage crisis, I was teaching and a student asked me, in all honesty and sincerity (after 40 years of the U.S. arming and training the Shah’s secret police—the Savak—who conducted an unspeakably brutal reign of terror against the general population,) “Why do the people of Iran hate us so much?”