[Newsbot]

Title: Gates Criticizes Turkey Vote Against Sanctions
Category: Political
Posted By: Khar
Date: 2010-06-11 23:12:29

[GreenTiger]

The countries voting NO won't be much of a problem as the Israeli Defense Force now has permission to fly through Saudi Arabian air space to attack Iran. One these days soon Mr Netanyahu will have his Air Force make a politically Incorrect statement about what he thinks of Iran's nuclear weapons program and address the issue of which nation might wipe which nation off the map in a fairly direct way that every one will understand.

[ShepherdsDog]

Israel only has problems with the leaders of Iran....but then again so do most Iranians

[Thanos]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Israel only has problems with the leaders of Iran....but then again so do most Iranians

That could be an incorrect and very dangerous assumption. Despite the known brutalities and excesses of theocratic Islamic authoritarianism, it is a mistake to presume in a distincly non-Western Iranian culture that the local fascism is universally unpopular among the general population. Iraq kind of confirmed this in that a lot of Iraqis, even among the Shia, have said on occasion that they would have preferred to have stayed under Saddam's orderly brutality rather than be exposed to the delights of chaotic 'freedom' that the haphazard American invasion and occupation left them with. (What exactly were they 'freed" from anyway? A functioning power grid? A clean water supply? A more or less stable life in general that didn't have bombers and snipers killing around 200 to 500 people per month, as continues to happen even now seven years after the main ground combat ended?)

I've learned the hard way, as a very disaffected former conservative, that it's very dangerous and fatally unwise to only see things solely through the lens provided by the Americans, and especially by the mainstream or rightwing American media machine. Without an understanging of the local power arrangements and cultural predilections, assuming that they even care about either (which is highly doubtful, from what I've seen from the vast majority of delusional neoconservative American warhawks), the same mistake (if not worse) is someday going to be repeated in Iran just as it was in Iraq.