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By Timothy Kudo, Published: January 13
We’re all guilty of dehumanizing the enemy
By Sebastian
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How the West should answer Iran’s nuclear aggression
By Ray Takeyh, Published: January 13
Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The perennial conflict between Iran and
the West has entered a dangerous new phase, with tensions rising in the Persian
Gulf since Iran has threatened retaliation for last week’sassassination of a chemical engineer linked
to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. What accounts for Iran’s behavior?
Behind all the sound and fury, Tehran is diligently pursuing a three-track
policy that involves provocation of the international community and making
noises about diplomacy as it relentlessly marches toward the bomb…”
Cassi
Creek: The march to armed conflict with
Iran seems focused upon an ever-tightening belt of weaponry, need to maintain sea-lanes,
and election year posturing and realities on our part; opposing a similar set-up
of weaponry, religious fanaticism, and millenniums-old anger at loosing the
wars with ancient Greece, setting the east and west on divergent paths toward
civilization.
The Iranian resentment at not being
regarded by the West as a world power is displayed in their propaganda and
public pronouncements. However, they should
look at their present situation and realize that only oil and location makes
them of any interest to any other nation, or any other group of Westerners except
Christian missionaries.
Rather than drop bombs on Iran, I’d
drop missionaries, dealing with two sets of religious fanatics at once.
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