Pain is only a problem, according to C. S. Lewis, if we fear it.
Often pain is less "painful" than agonizing about it.

  

 

I've been painting all day.

  

 

CBS is showing a program on Mr. Rafsanjani's wealth.

How many more years we have to suffer before we can finally be free of the Iranian regime?

  

 

Yesterday I had to sit and listen to this person talking about how Middle Easterners marry four wives, divorce their wives one after another, want to have virgins, kill their girls, and stone women to death.

I painted all night to forget my frozen heart, my frozen hands, and my frozen place in the history of my country where demanding the basic rights is a reason for imprisonment.

  

 

Can American politicians see that physical devastation and economic disorder would make Iraq vulnerable to (Islamic) extremists' influence?

  

 

Free Sina Motalebi (go to PetitionOnline.)

  

 

"Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking" - John Wain


The Iranian American singer HAALE Rocks & the poetry of Iranian born Azam Ali are as great as her music.

  

 

I've a cold.

  

 

In my view, oil cannot be separated from the geopolitical equations of the Middle East. At the same time, however, I believe it is misleading to attribute the roots of this conflict to oil alone. In order to defeat communism or the so called evil empire, the US found weird bedfellows among Islamic fundamentalists and stayed ambivalent about them for almost a decade after the old adversary was defeated. The tragic events of September 11, or in Professor Fred Halliday's words the two hours that shook the world changed the paradigm of international relations forever.

The world of the 21st century will not be one in which tyrants and fanatics are supported and appeased by democracies. It will be a world built on alliance of democracies, which together deal the final blow to fundamentalism and terrorism. I see Iraq's liberation as the first step towards that end. The US has come to realize the importance of security in the region and the inseparable relationship between security and democracy in that region.

I truly hope that this leads to democratization of the region and peace for everyone just as US intervention in Europe brought prosperity to the continent.

  

 

Will the defeat of Saddam bring stability to Iraq and the world?

  

 

It is such a crazy day. The news are insanely mind blowing.