Originally Posted by
Hyde
Who would economic sanctions hurt more? Them or the rest of the world? The only reason Iran was able to survive sanctions in the 70s is because the leaders were okay with sacrificing their people's quality of life.
I don't think it's any different now. We screwed the Iranians around so much in the past 50 years and it's wasn't until recently that we've only started to make baby steps towards creating good relations with them. But if you did such a thing as to not allow any Iranians into our countries, I'm pretty sure they'd say 'hell naw' and they'd go and do their own thing.
You've also got to realise that there's simply less respect for life in the Middle East. It's a hard fucking place to live. It creates hard people, and hard people are more hardcore. There's been so many atrocities in the region in the past 100 years that it just makes you sit back and go "Wow, these people are
constantly doing things that we just can't".