Having lived in the US for the last 15 years now, I can quite confidently state that an average American is quite ignorant about the world at large. He quite readily eats whatever BS if being fed to him by US Govt. Case in point - WMD in Iraq.
That being said, they easily paint Iran as a terrorist state even though Iran has not committed 1 single act of terrorism directly against the US. All it's alleged terrorist acts have been thro' Hezbollah and those are directed against Israel.
OTH, Pakistan is much more of a terrorist state than Iran is; it's terrorism affecting us directly and affecting the US indirectly.
Yet the US Govt has no qualms in supplying Pakistan with military and economic aid and also urging us to go easy on them.
Everytime they lecture us on Iran, someone should remind them of the wretched friends they keep.
