In a message dated 1/9/07 4:25:37 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see Iran's moves as purely defensive. They *know* Israel has nuclear weapons. They have been called part of an axis of evil by the most powerful militarist country in the world. So, now everything Iran does geopolitically is seen as agression towards Israel and the US, when in fact they are probably scared sh*tless, by the prospect of a military strike against them, and have been for a long time. Why the US thinks it appears at all reasonable, modern and sane when viewed from Iran is beyond me. I don't doubt that you do see Iran's moves as purely defensive. Why hasn't Syria done the same? Iran hasn't been called an axis of evil for nothing. They have been a state sponsor of terrorism for decades as has Syria. There are not that many countries, European or Islamic, that would characterize them any differently either. Yet everybody has been content to negotiate with them while they, Iran, works desperately to develop nuclear energy everybody knows they don't need but only want for military purposes. Nobody has posed a military threat to Syria and nobody has posed a military threat to Iran until they started developing a nuclear program and repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Not only is Israel upset at the prospect of Iran trying to use nukes to destroy them, but Sunni Muslim nations fear Iran trying to use nukes against them and now are threatening to start their own programs in self defense against Iran. So in short, both Syria and Iran sponsor terrorism and call for the destruction of Israel yet the world deals with each differently because of political posturing and Iran is hell bent of getting nukes with which they could actually do it with.
