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2006-03-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Dir of Strategic Stablity (Russia) on Iran

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Posted by 3dc 2006-03-24 18:54|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: In the early 1990s, when I was in Iran for the first time, I saw there the magnificent American Sun 4 and Sun 5 computers, which the United States barred from selling to Russia but sold freely to Iran; and they were working there very effectively. It is true that Iranian girls wear black shawls to conceal their hair but the girls I saw -- who had also graduated from U.S. universities -- were very smart when it came to handling state-of-the-art computers.

Actually, Iran has been under a comprehensive trade embargo since the Iranian Revolution. Iran might have acquired Suns via third parties. But what would you expect from a Russian apparatchik - the truth?

Article: The U.S. policy is mainly about exporting democracy by making offers one cannot refuse. They are doing this to countries whose history dates back millennia and who have unthinkable contributions to mankind under their belt. What Americans do not know how to do is take into account others' national sensitivities, customs, and traditions. What they are doing is trying to inculcate those countries with American lifestyles -- something that is hardly possible.

And the Russian tradition was to annex them to the Russian empire - vast chunks of the Chinese Far East used to be Chinese territory and the Central Asian civilizations, of course, predate Russia by millenia. There is no BS like Russian BS.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-24 19:31|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-24 19:31|| Front Page Top

#2 I forgot to mention that Russia added some of stan's to its empire out of Persia's hide. The Russians certainly have an interesting way of showing respect for ancient civilizations - first they annex them, and then they ruthlessly suppress their religion, trying to inculcate them with Communist lifestyles.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-24 19:41|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-24 19:41|| Front Page Top

#3 The Russians certainly have an interesting way of showing respect for ancient civilizations - first they annex them, and then they ruthlessly suppress their religion, trying to inculcate them with Communist lifestyles.

Right. Just ask the kulaks ... oh, wait, there aren't any more around to ask.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-03-24 21:30|| 2006-03-24 21:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The Shah of Iran never threatened anyone, not even Israel. As for "inculcating" nations with American lifestyles - compared to what, Commies working wid Muslims and Radicals which induced 9-11; or a WOT which is a PC war for control of the world and future OWG, where Socialism, Totalitarianism and OWG is forced upon America or America "volunteers" to submit, where the Left > America can fight and die for a global Empire that it must voluntarily = forcibly, give up = lose later on ergo vote for the Dems in 2006 and 2008. TONY BLAIR > WOT > NOT A WAR BETWEEN CIVILZATIONS SOMUCH AS ABOUT CIVILIZATION. For all of America's appeasin' and concedin', the reward for the American people is to still be gulagged andor genocided as anyone during WW2 except that we're all to sing KUMBAYA and WE ARE THE CHILDREN, etc. as we happily report to our local death camps.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-03-24 23:10|| 2006-03-24 23:10|| Front Page Top

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