BF2S Forums So why would the US do this. (Iranian wheat sale)

FEOS wrote:

Mavik wrote:

You say people in the US are starving? Well, they are free to buy the grain, are they not? Oh, they have no money - pity...
Your government/grain traders are not taking away the food from your own people to give it away for free to your "enemies", they simply refuse to give it to anyone who is not able to pay for it - and give it to anyone who can.

And if letting a misguided, uneducated, misinformed people hunger because their government opposes yours is a valid cause of action for you - then I have nothing elso to say to you.

Um...what?

First part: sarcasm
Second part: fact
Third part: rejectance

FEOS wrote:

I asked "what" because I didn't see anyone saying that stuff. It seemed you went on an unprovoked rant there.

Well, yes.

DBBrinson1 wrote:

It just doesn't make any sense.  Why feed those who are dead set against you?  We have hungry people here in the US.

He said feed, not trade with.

Mavik wrote:

You say people in the US are starving? Well, they are free to buy the grain, are they not? Oh, they have no money - pity...
Your government/grain traders are not taking away the food from your own people to give it away for free to your "enemies", they simply refuse to give it to anyone who is not able to pay for it - and give it to anyone who can.

And if letting a misguided, uneducated, misinformed peaple hunger because their government opposes yours is a valid cause of action for you - then I have nothing elso to say to you.

Well, I would bet money that the Iranians buying products of the wheat supplied by the US have no idea where it came from.  Do I have a problem with feeding those that burn my flag and effigies of our President in their streets while chanting "Death to the Great Satan"?  Yes.  Do I have a problem with feeding those that supply arms, explosive, training and other equipment to enemies of the US?  Yes.  Do I have a problem with feeding the guy's wives and kids?  Kinda.

Some of these misguided, uneducated, misinformed masses you write of indirectly and directly play a role in the deaths of some US soldiers.  I have problem with feeding those people.  If you don't then I have nothing else to say to you.

Last edited by DBBrinson1 (2008-08-23 08:39:02)

God Save the Queen wrote:

we dont things out of the kindness of out heart.  If anything, we're giving the wheat so theyll play ball a little more with the threat of starving.

Bring on the wheat speculators!

God Save the Queen wrote:

we are the worlds bread basket.  I wouldnt mind that.


bubbles always burst thought

What do bubbles have against thought?

Mavik wrote:

FEOS wrote:

I asked "what" because I didn't see anyone saying that stuff. It seemed you went on an unprovoked rant there.

Well, yes.

DBBrinson1 wrote:

It just doesn't make any sense.  Why feed those who are dead set against you?  We have hungry people here in the US.

He said feed, not trade with.

Would probably have helped if you had included that bit in your post, since it was pretty well removed from what you were responding to.

Eat it, Mek.

DBBrinson1 wrote:

Well, I would bet money that the Iranians buying products of the wheat supplied by the US have no idea where it came from.  Do I have a problem with feeding those that burn my flag and effigies of our President in their streets while chanting "Death to the Great Satan"?  Yes.  Do I have a problem with feeding those that supply arms, explosive, training and other equipment to enemies of the US?  Yes.  Do I have a problem with feeding the guy's wives and kids?  Kinda.

It seems that many Iranians don't fit the flag-burning, great-satan-chanting stereotype
At least according to this guy

I would say it's smart to sell the wheat, and do anything else that keeps the public there from rallying around the mullahs--there is serious discontent with the government there.