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Originally Posted by roachboy
sometimes it helps to do a bit of research about the situation that obtains in a country before you start freaking out--as a function of uninformed mistinterpretation..
an alternative version of this story--within a broader chronological perspective--from the financial times:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/85964a7a-4b...0779e2340.html
this from a left perspective, an analysis of the new government:
http://www.iran-bulletin.org/IB-MEF-...ons_edited.htm
the irony is that this administration sounds an awful lot like the bush administration in the u.s.--different ideological context, parallel kind of politics--however i suspect that this regime will be a bit less willing to lie to its population about war---go figure.
a critique of the nuclear hysteria with reference to iran (check the notes/chase the links--do not rely on this guy's reading of things--see for yourself)
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=11233 |
Ah, but one of these times the sabre rattling and the nationalistic propaganda
will be real as will the military attacks.
I think it should be taken very seriously and prepared for. I don't think ignoring it or trying to understand where it is coming from or blowing it off as idle threats will work much longer.
I am not suggesting we need to go to war tomorrow against them but I do think we should be ready in case they do try something. It would not be hard for them to cross the border into Iraq, where, as much as some dismiss the fact, they do have allies. And it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say if Iran went in Syria may follow from the other side.
And we are in a part of the world where they truly hate us, we have an administration that blew any world credibility and destroyed alliances with its lies, so we may find ourselves very alone.
Isreal can only do so much. If IRan and Syria attacked, Isreal would help but they would have to be careful of Egypt and all the other Muslim countries in tha area attacking them.
This could be a true hotbed and serious conflict someday if we keep ignoring it and laughing it off as nothing.
This is one where there is no answer.
North Korea is easy, compared to this.