You very much for your informative posting. We need much more international perspective, like this one and the round of notes regarding Mexico.
Much that I have read suggests that the United States is playing into Iran's hand in strengthening its influence in Iraq. You make Iran seem foolish. Could you clarify a bit? On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 04:53:37AM -0700, soula avramidis wrote: > > > Dim-witted Iranian clerics are playing for time to build nuclear bombs > thinking they could outsmart the Americans and their Israeli allies. They > have unnecessarily prolonged the war in Iraq in the past and cost the region > untold suffering and agony based on the faulty premise that ‘the Iraqis > attacked first and so we should finish them off strategy.’ They are delaying > open resistance in Iraq by keeping the Shiites at bay while the Americans try > to finish off the Sunni triangle very much like they did in the late > nineteenth century when they assisted the European imperialist against the > Ottomans. No matter what happens, if the US pulls itself out of Iraq they > will be next and not solely because of nuclear facilities. The US has a > congenital intolerance to semi-sovereign states in the Middle East. It is not > Iran that is buying time. It is the US. While Iran waits for an outcome in > Iraq, a waiting whose undercurrent stenches with Persian anti Arab sentiment > as tolls of people go down, > one is reminded that “all waiting is a crime.” -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
