New Conservatives of Iran and America, How the birds of drastically different feather, can in one way flock together?
Imagine a nutcracker, in the middle; there is this precious Persian hazelnut (Iranian society). Each of the legs (governments of Iran and America) thinks it is responsible for the nut’s safety. They are both forcing forward awaiting confrontation, imagining that the hazelnut will be preserved the way they like after they meet and crash the other leg and force it out from the battlefield. Imagine how we feel in Iran, like that poor hazelnut! How can we like any of the legs? To whom in this world we need to talk if we do not want to support either of them and frankly, is there any space left for us to do this support if we like to? ...
It is becoming rationally obvious that American approach in dealing with Iran may end up where minds stop and guns talk. The new conservatives in Iran and America are ready to indulge themselves with a new dining in the Middle East. In between there is this nation that deserves lot more than what it has got now and what is being planned for it. The surprising thing is that now out of the blue and in this crucial period of time, new conservatives have power in both Iran and America with more or less kind of similar ideology (I am thinking this way so let it be) albeit the presence of drastic differences. They both think they are in standing side by side with Iranian people but you know…
Nice use of analogy (nutcracker and hazelnut). I've the same feelings like you and wrote similar things to one of my Iranian friend. Perhaps instead of talking to any nation/organization, Iranians need to talk to themselves and take matter in their own hands (the way various colonial countries fought for independence when they were under European powers). But, always these things are easier said than done.
Posted by: KL | February 10, 2005 at 10:03 PM
The tides of war can plainly be seen in the American mass media and in the traits that the American administration is taking on currently. I'm sure you are well aware of it, because I find it very ironic that this war that will affect the American people so intimately in the future yet is completely invisible to them. All they are worried about is the next paycheck, NFL game, or game system to purchase. Thinking of all the hypocrises and injusticies committed by my country, I can come to no other conclusion but that this so-called "liberation" of Islamic peoples is merely a disguise for a much more serious and grave matter: an American Federal Empire.
American and Chinese economies, the two major players (China being the up and coming ruler of the industry, devaluating the dollar and getting a huge slice from the American trade deficit as of the end of 2004) are preparing for war, possibly the last war human kind will face. Two countries occupied in four years, possibly another in the fifth. The Middle East may be facing permanent occupation so the Americans can have a strategic foothold to start a massacre. Not to mention, if Iran was in fact occupied, Americans would have total control of the second and third largest oil producers in the world at the SAME TIME. Therein, tanks, cruisers, planes, and humvees would all have continuous fuel for the war effort for many, many years.
Hell, the Chinese have been playing the same damn game, trading weapons for oil, stockpiling, building pipelines uniting Russian-Chinese economies. (In effect, the weaker Russian economy feeding off the rapidly growing Chinese economy and the Chinese helping another nation only because they absolutely need to in order to fuel a war against such an enemy.) Now, the North Koreans have outwardly declared in defiance that they have nuclear weapons, but are we hearing any big reaction on the news by any of the pundits yet or by the current Republican Regime ruling right now?
If America invades Iran, it will not be Middle Eastern people's duty to incite revolution, it will be the American's own. And props to you Mr. Behi, keep informing us of the real situation in your area as opposed to the filtered, fixed telecasts of the mass media conglomerates, we will be reading.
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Posted by: Karl Rove | February 17, 2005 at 02:01 AM