Showing posts with label international politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international politics. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2007

...Another View of Iran...

With the rhetoric of war against Iran and the demonizing being ratcheted up as was done to Iraq, this is a side to consider that is seldom heard. These are the words of an Iranian -

"There is a brilliant article in the Wall Street Journal about Iran’s ongoing hit T.V. series that deals with the plight of Jews during WWII (It’s a sort of an Iranian “Schindler’s List” and is called “Zero Degree Turn”!).

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118912609718220156-

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Clearly, Iran is a very much misunderstood nation, and the neocons/Zionists have done their level best to exaggerate its purported evils so as to prevent the U.S.-Iran ‘rapprochement’ that should have occurred after Iran promptly sent condolences on 9/11 (the first nation globally to do so) and provided invaluable assistance to the U.S. in expelling the Taliban from Afghanistan.

You might also like to read the new book by Chicago professor, Mearsheimer, and Harvard professor, Walt, on the extraordinary and damaging influence of AIPAC on U.S. foreign policy. It’s called “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”.

I personally believe the neocons and Israelis have dug their own grave, because “you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”.

The bitter irony of all this is that if the U.S. and Israel had extended the hand of friendship to Iran the world would have been far more capable of defeating terrorism than by demonizing Iran and praising Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (whose citizens perpetrated 9/11 and danced in the streets on seeing the Twin Towers collapse).

So what about the 1980 hostage crisis?! U.S. spies (every embassy has them!) were denied room service for 444 days. Not a single diplomat was harmed [and the criminal Reagan cabal, purposely conspired to delay their release as a tactic to defeat Pres. Jimmy Carter].

What America had done in 1953 in overthrowing the first ever democratically elected secular government in the region (leading to murder and torture under the U.S.-installed Shah), then encouraging Saddam Hussein to invade Iran (leading to one million deaths), was a lot worse. It is America that should have apologized to Iran for historical atrocities, not vice-versa.

As for Israel, Iran actually provided it with emergency fuel during the 1967 war, so the attitude of both America and Israel has been astonishingly inept and self-destructive. The neocons and Israelis are their own worst enemies. We need more voices of reason, especially among Jewish Americans, if we don’t want global terrorism to get unimaginably worse."

Monday, October 09, 2006

An Unseemly Mess!

The latest outrage of the Bushites, is to blame yesterday's nuclear test by the Koreans, on the Clinton administration. All the foreign newspapers are saying, that ever since the Bushites unilaterally and illegally, invaded and occupied Iraq, a sovereign country that did not attack us, nor was capable of doing so, every other country, particularly those branded as part of the 'axis of evil', have no choice but to gather and test their own weapons to defend themselves if similarly attacked. They are also saying this is the first nuclear domino, and shortly, Japan, Taiwan, China, So. Korea, Pakistan, India, and Saudi Arabia, must do the same to protect themselves from the possible new threat to the world community, posed by the unstable, North Korea. The Bushites must love chaos - everything they have touched, from Iraq to Katrina, to the current Congressional Page scandal etc, has been nothing but chaotic and an unseemly, unmitigated disaster. What is really stunning, is that as murderous, clueless, inept and duplicitous the Bushites are, more than 30% of the voters still approves of and supports them! For them to have any support at this point, is a sure sign that we are on the edge of an abyss, waiting to implode.
By the way, what if all this chaos and nuclear proliferation, is a deliberately planned outcome, to justify giving massive 'star-war' type contracts to the defense industry buddies of the Bushites??? Am I being too cynical???