On what evidence do you base that glowing endorsement? It's quite generalized, as well.
I've known Iranian people, and found them to be no smarter on average than anyone else in the room. Are you suggesting that the scientists who work on their military projects are smarter than ours?
If they're so damned smart, why aren't we stealing technology from them, instead of the other way around?
One of the things that I find tedious about Free Republic lately is the preponderance of penis measuring. When making any kind of point, the automatic response is “well, they are better than us?,” or “But Clinton did that...” or from the other side, “It’s Bush’s fault.”
We need to stop thinking in black and white. There is a ton of grey area out there. Open your mind to the potential that others may be working just as hard to beat us, and perhaps harder, than we are to beat them.
I never said they were the smartest people. I said they were smart.
The guys that make our stuff are pretty smart.
But put yourself in the position of the enemy: They get their top fifty minds focused on accomplishing a single goal...they fund them, and motivate them. And their motivation is being able to poke us in the eye.
For example, at the start of WWII, I don’t think anyone would argue that the Japanese Naval Aviators were pretty good...better than most of our guys. They could not imagine us having the capability to bomb Japan. But a group of highly motivated and focused men put together a pretty good plan, and bombed Japan. The raid was the ultimate poke in the eye...until 9/11.
Why is it so incredible that another country would focus their best and brightest to poke us.
The Iranians are like the Avis commercials of the past....they are not number one...they have to try harder.