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.. with which many I'm in total agreement. My inclusion of Iran with the rest of the Arab world was not intended as an aspersion upon either Persians or Arabs, but a description of how the West views the Middle East. How many people here in the U.S. could even locate Iraq, Syria, Iran et al on a world map? How many still think Saddam was behind 9-11? How many even know which ME nations have secular govt's, military dictatorships, theocracies, etc? The Bushreich has effectively played upon our own ignorance to lump all ME nations as one great Muslim threat to "Western civilization", never mind that Iraq is the cradle of civilization whose people graced us with law and writing, great cities and sophisitcated technologies while our European forebears were still painting themselves blue and taking a crap in the corner of a cave.
Conversely, the British played upon age-old schisms and rivalries among various peoples in the region, effectively throw a roadblock before any natural evolution of a united "Arab states". The lack of any unified front has left the individual countries completely vulnerable to being picked off, one by one, by Western corporate interests.
Iran may have an impressive military but it will be hopelessly outmatched once the U.S. has firmly established scores of military bases in, among others, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. The PNAC python has Iran in its grip and its only a matter of time before they begin to strangle the last roadblock in their path to ME domination. The Bushistas see this as their God-appointed mission and I don't think anything or anyone can divert them from their goal. The thought of unleashing WWIII is only a bonus which could surely bring on "the rapture" they so crave.
My only question at this point is whether they will "take out" Iran's nuclear facilities before or after the November elections.
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