Harry Veeder
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:25:02 -0700
On 23/6/2008 12:05 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: > > > Harry Veeder wrote: > >> On 23/6/2008 8:14 AM, Taylor J. Smith wrote: >> >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Now Mohamed ElBaradei follows in the footsteps of >>> Admiral Fallon. >>> >>> Jack Smith >>> >>> Ed Storms wrote on 6-20-08: >>> >>> ``If you would like to understand the irrational thinking >>> that drives the policy with respect to Iran and Israel, >>> read this article.'' >>> >>> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/06/iran-neocons-sa.html >>> >>> >>> ``NEWS ARTICLE from The Los Angeles Times, 6-19-08, >>> >>> IRAN: Stop nukes by bombing oil wells, neocons suggest >>> >>> Why attack Iran's nuclear facilities when striking their >>> oil infrastructure would be much more effective in the >>> scope of a US-led preventive war? Sure, oil prices might >>> skyrocket and the world economy might collapse. But, hey, >>> that's the price you pay for security ...'' >>> >> >> >> which gives the Iranians another reason to develop nuclear power, >> which leads to more Israeli paranoia...which leads to more war talk, >> which gives the Iranians another reason to develop nuclear power... > > Thus we see the wisdom of the Christian advice to "turn the other cheek" > in contrast to the Jewish approach of "taking an eye for an eye". > The problem is the Jewish norm is also a Muslim norm, so the worst thing the US could do is take sides by refusing to talk to the Iranians. Harry