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| quote: | Originally posted by CHRles
So let me ask you this then: based on what you know, whats your overall impression of the situation in Iran and with Iran? Where is that country headed? What kind of future are we facing with them? |
I don't know much about Iran I'm afraid!
I do find it quite funny tho that your concerns are now focused on Iran, rather than al-Qaida, or Iraq, or Syria.
America's paranoia keeps shifting onto new targets all the time! I don't understand American paranoia but what I do know is that America has always needed an international boogie man to feel secure - they just know that there is an enemy out there somewhere!
Iran poses no threat, terrorist or conventional, to America. They only came under the American microscope because they (allegedly) support Shiites in Iraq, which has hampered the American plan to get a US-friendly government installed completely at odds with democracy (Sadr's group should probably be in charge). They also support the Shiite Hizballah which threatens Israel (even that is not an existential threat).
But there is no international Shiite terrorist threat. The international Islamist terrorist threat is from al-Qaida and their followers - Sunni terrorism. But America either thinks the two are the same, or they are trying to create that impression to pursue their international agenda with no criticism from their electorate.
I personally don't see Iran as a threat, just as I didn't see Saddam as a threat. But I'm British and not Israeli...and American foreign policy puts the security of Israel at the top of its agenda...
But I don't think Iran would even think about attacking Israel, despite the rhetoric. That would end the Iranian regime.
I don't particularly see much difference between Islamic political ideology promoted by the Islamists of the world and Christian political ideology promoted by the Christian right in America. I think we are paranoid that Islamists want to kill all non-Muslims and take over the world, but this is a very poor knowledge of why Islamism came on the scene in the first place and what they actually want.
Islamists target the West because we support their oppression. If we didn't support their oppression, then the people of those countries would be free to decide their own future and I don't think we'd have the problems we do today...
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