As the engineer quoted in the article says, Iran is not Afghanistan or
Pakistan. Unfortunately Americans aren't very good in geography or history and
we tend to lump everybody in that part of the world together, and so forget
that Iran was once called Persia and the Persian Empire at one time conquered a
large part of the world. We forget this at our peril.
Francis
>From: Joe Leikhim <[email protected]>
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>This mindset is an example why the US is falling so far behind the rest of the
>world, not only in technology but in the >diplomacy game. In 1980 I worked for
>a very smart engineering manager who told me he studied electrical engineering
>>by the light of a gasoline lantern in a tent in Turkey.
>
>"US officials skeptical of Iran's capabilities blame a malfunction, but so far
>can't explain how Iran acquired the drone >intact. One American analyst
>ridiculed Iran's capability, telling Defense News that the loss was like
>dropping a Ferrari >into an ox-cart technology culture."
>
>--
>Joe Leikhim
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