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Re: General McCaffrey asked THE question wrt Syria

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That, and the history. The US and UK overthrew the previous Iranian democracy in favour of the Shah. For the sake of the oil, of course.

So it is not so surprising that the Persians parse our grand speeches and wondrous strategies and think - they are not impressed.

In their shoes, I can't be sure I wouldn't be as cynical about Western ideas of freedom.

At any rate, they seem to have built a democratic structure, albeit a funky one from our viewpoint.




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Re: General McCaffrey asked THE question wrt Syria
By: DigSpace
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Fri, 30 Aug 13 10:22 PM
Msg. 14544 of 54959

Yup. The animosity, the nuclear program, and the faith all alienate mercans from persians, but the fact is they do have a form of democracy, they are a very stable state, and a productive state sanctions notwithstanding. The results of elections in that country do impact policy, not as much as in some other places, but much more than in some other places as well. So it comes back to the nuclear program, the Israelis, and the whole effort it seems to foster a greater Shia-run-from-persia empire in the region. But even that may be the way to go, were it not for the whole Israel thing and some over-the-top faith-by-sword expansionism.

The mercans just lost it when they came up with this neocon fantasy that sacking iraq was in their interests. Dumbest geopolitical move by merca since, ... well, I can't think of a more substantial blunder in treasure, lives, reputation, and actual power in the area in question.


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