What is scary? The fact that McCaine paints the world black and white. The “you are either for us or against us” approach to foreign policy. Fearmongering… All these “facts” about Iran and their approach. Come people. You talk about history – then study it. How long have Iran been going under this regime of theirs? And since when have they started being a threat to the US?
Are they a despicable regime? Yes they are – you won’t get me to defend them. But do remember that they only raised their heads on the global scene in the last few years. Because an opportunity for leadership in the region was presented to them on a platter. By the invasion of Iraq that shifted the balance in their favor.
My concern is that McCain won’t talk to anyone, but will call people gooks and get Shiite and Sunni confused. Knowing nothing is bad. Thinking you know something and then actually knowing nothing is just plain scary. And McCain falls in both camps. I’ll go with the guy who says – I’ll first speak to them to figure them out than rely on fearmongering and bad analysis that got us into this position in the first place.
Oh, and go back and study the Cold War again. See what the US did internally (remember Stalin) and their aim of world domination that they aimed for throughout their history. And then you realize that they were much more of a threat than Iran. Because they had the button and the power to actually try it. Iran doesn’t. Maybe they will get it one day and we should prevent that from happening. But they don’t have that kind of power today. And they don’t have the ideological colonialism that communism had either. the world is too fragmented today for two ideologies to prevail. The world were divided into two back then – today we are broken into hundreds of little pieces. Iraq doesn’t have the means to pull it off because too large a part of the world is against their religious fundamentalism. And I am not talking about just the West. I am talking about the East, Latin America and Africa as well. Most of these parts are non-Muslim dominated (some in Africa though) and won’t tolerate a threat to their own system. But they won’t stand for the threat from the current US foreign policy either.
They don’t see the world as black and white. We even got color TV down in Africa now…
