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Interpreting Ahmadinejadâs Anti-Zionist Comments | |
2005-11-12 | |
Excerpt: openDemocracy (Nov 3) focused on a âclash of perceptionsâ between the U.S. and Iran with Ahmadinejadâs comments seen as exacerbating an already tense context. The crux of it is that the U.S. has long regarded Iran as the âserious problemâ in the Middle East and had hoped to contain Iranian ambitions with success in Iraq. Failing in Iraq and failing the prospect of establishing actual âregime changeâ in Iran, the U.S. views it as unacceptable that Iran should develop a nuclear capability. Hence the ongoing efforts to bring Iran before the U.N. security council. This clashes with Iranâs perception that it has every right to develop its nuclear capability viewing itself as one of the âgreat statesâ with over 4,000 years of civilization. As the author notes: âThis view [of their right to develop nuclear energy] is reinforced by more recent developments: Iran has seen regimes to its east (Afghanistan) and west (Iraq) destroyed by a superpower that describes it as âevilâ, permanent US bases being constructed in these neighbouring states, and its entire coastline effectively dominated by the US fifth fleet.â
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Posted by:willtotruth |
#19 Methinks compulsiontobabble. |
Posted by: .com 2005-11-12 22:32 |
#18 There seems to be a hetrodyne on top of that TRANZI signal. I couldn't copy a bit of it, it's just one big whine and squeal. |
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-11-12 22:16 |
#17 willtoignornance? LOL |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-12 22:13 |
#16 yawn. Did you say something? |
Posted by: 2b 2005-11-12 22:06 |
#15 Sinktrap? This kind of LLL hatred of Ameroca can't be reasoned with. Truth you say? LOL |
Posted by: SR-71 2005-11-12 22:03 |
#14 ROFL. |
Posted by: .com 2005-11-12 21:58 |
#13 Amusing bunch indeed. Killing in the name of peace and democracy - the American motto. Threaten the entire region .... . No that would be the U.S., Israel and their respective nuclear arsenals and their insistence on destroying entire cultures. If the clerics are solvable it isn't something Iran needs done the good ol U.S.A. way. Its own democratic roots can do fine without that kind of help. You know, like how they helped "solve" the problem of Iranian democracy in the 50s. The Lancet study had no problems - just wide margins of error typical of such a methodology. Even on the outside, it still leaves tens of thousands pointlessly dead for a big fat collection of lies. Iraq is Iran's neighbour. The U.S. has been wanting a piece of it for years. But, of course, you knew this well before Ahmadinejad came along right? Dolt? Wrong. Debunked? Wrong. Yes, let's brag about just how much more killing America could commit. While we're at it lets talk about its violations of the same NPT Iran has honoured. I want the Lancet study to be true? Wrong. It just points to numbers others don't want to be true. Debunked, so many times? By you and your buddies I presume. (i.e., you said nothing). Who exactly is dominating the Middle East? Iran you say? Hell bent on doing what America is actually doing. Get your facts and your rhetoric straight gents. America is a wonderful place full of truly wonderful people. Most of whom continue to maintain a willtoignornance unprecedented when it comes to knowing or caring about its actual foreign actions. Great people. Hideous foreign actions. But that much must be obvious even to you folk. |
Posted by: willtotruth 2005-11-12 21:54 |
#12 Don't feed the trolls! |
Posted by: Jim 2005-11-12 20:51 |
#11 Have you ever noticed how guys with nics like "willtotruth" and "king of tolerance," are usually humorless ideologues who are all convinced that the US is the _worst_country_ever_? If I wasn't in such a good mood, I'd mess with him a little. |
Posted by: 11A5S 2005-11-12 19:49 |
#10 Interpreting Ahmadinejadâs Anti-Zionist Comments Save the conversion from Farsi, what other "interpretation" is needed? The meaning is more than clear. Iran is a genocidal regime hell bent on dominating the entire Middle East with their corrupt vision of theocratic dictatorship. Its Arabic neighbors are so obsessively anti-American that none of them can redirect their microscopic attention spans over to considering just what Iran's military ascension holds in store for them. |
Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-12 18:00 |
#9 willto"truth" WANTS that study to be true. It wants us to be the bogeyman/badman due to hate for America. That study has been debunked so many times, and puhleaze! Citing Juan "I hate Amerikkka" Cole as an expert? You're, like, 2002. Bet you fell behind in school too, huh? |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-12 16:43 |
#8 Oh puh-lease 'willtotruth', that Lancet 'study' has been thoroughly debunked. It totally cracks me up when people say America is doing most of the killing. What about the suicide bombers (imported drones from Saudi, Syria and elsewhere), the beheadings and all the killing of people waiting to get a job. Dolt. If you want to know what sort of killing America is capable of, Google "Trident D5 Ohio", and then figure that launching all those missiles (from one boat) would cost less than a weeks worth of the day-to-day cost of being in Iraq. |
Posted by: Tony (UK) 2005-11-12 16:23 |
#7 Uhmm... We're not in Ahmadinejad's country... unless you've already accepted some heretofore unknown redrawing of borders... |
Posted by: Dishman 2005-11-12 15:31 |
#6 oh for goodness' sake - learn to use Google and find out all the problems with that so-called study. |
Posted by: too true 2005-11-12 15:23 |
#5 What part of Death to America don't we understand? The part where it is America actually doing most of the killing. What part of "get out of my country" don't we understand? US Has Killed 100,000 in Iraq: The Lancet by Juan Cole |
Posted by: willtotruth 2005-11-12 15:11 |
#4 Ed.. you got that right. |
Posted by: 2b 2005-11-12 12:18 |
#3 a series of misbehavior by a puny "state" will ineveitably bring repercussions: financially, politically, and militarily. How's that Iranian stock market, putzhead? |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-12 11:39 |
#2 What part of Death to America don't we understand? |
Posted by: ed 2005-11-12 10:36 |
#1 Iran has seen regimes to its east (Afghanistan) and west (Iraq) destroyed by a superpower that describes it as âevilâ, permanent US bases being constructed in these neighbouring states, and its entire coastline effectively dominated by the US fifth fleet.â Uh...I seem to remember a little incident in 1979 "the prez" participated in. I also remember a little incident in Beirut in 1983 sponsored by Iran. I don't think it's a clash of perceptions. |
Posted by: anymouse 2005-11-12 09:57 |