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"Iran will be able be dealt with in a positive manner that will mean a peacefully pull out of Iraq and that they also will not menace Israel."
Iran doesn't have to be "dealt with" now anymore than it had to be "dealt with" in 1953, 1973, 1983, or 1993. Unfortunately we assassinated their elected leader in 1953 because he vowed to nationalize Iranian oil. Then we installed the Shah as our puppet, complete with SAVAK, the Shah's torture police. The Shah was so unpopular--beyond repression, he destroyed acres of beautiful Persian architecture in Tehran and replaced cultural landmarks with functionalist concrete skyscrapers--that communists, feminists, and liberal humanists joined together with the Islamic movement to get rid of our puppet. Then, when the Ayatollah took power, he executed the communists, feminists, and liberal humanists who helped the Islamists overthrow the Shah. He also took some Americans hostage in retaliation. This is the only thing most Americans know about Iran.
Want real diplomacy with Iran? How about publically apologizing for assassinating their elected president in '53. And apologizing for Bush calling Iran "the Axis of Evil" after they were eager to help us in the wake of 9-11.
"Chavez will now be willing to negotiate and talk/work nice with us."
Negotiate what? Chavez nationalized Venezuela's oil wealth. Venezuela's elite and their American elite backers are pissed because now they can't suck the nation dry. Then our corporate owned media began to produce propaganda to run on private stations in Venezuela. The Chavez government pulled it off the air and then we cried that he wasn't allowing "a free press"--"free" meaning that the highest bidder is free to decide the truth. Then we staged a coup by abducting Chavez, framed Chavez's supporters as murderous fanatics through camera editing (which was later disproven by international reporters who had filmed the same event) and ran the phony footage over the freshly abducted Venezuelan airwaves. Then the army itself, loyal to Chavez, deposed the U.S. backed cronies and restored Chavez upon his release.
As far as I can tell, Chavez is working with the American people. In fact, Venezuela donates heating oil to impoverished New Yorkers. But he isn't very nice to our elected leaders. I wouldn't be either if they abducted me. The only thing Chavez has done is nationalize Venezuela's oil. But hey he's lucky that he wasn't assassinated like Iran's Mossadeq or Allende in nearby Chile where we installed the fascist monster, Pinochet. Wait, how is he supposed to work with us?
"China and Russia will adjust their own agendas to more of a match to that of the west."
And that means what? Outsourcing their bloodlust and fantasies of control instead of inacting them on their own people? Well let's hope not.
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