Posted on 10/13/2014 9:15:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press that Iran is a natural ally of the U.S.
As long as Iran is ruled by the ayatollah and bases itself on its sectarian philosophy, we have to be careful. But basically, as a country, Iran is a natural ally of the United States. Its the ideological, religious component that makes it an antagonist, said Kissinger, who served as Secretary of State for the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations.
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Thank you, was lovely :)
It had to be said. I believe that Israel’s post-American strategy should be to form an Eastern Minorities Alliance (EMA), and all the eastern minorities must hang together if we don’t want to hang separately. I see signs that Israel’s diplo-corp is evolving in that direction, and believe that that evolution is inevitable. I’m just helping it along in my own little way, whispering on the Internet and hoping that some policy wonk in the Foreign Ministry sees my brain child and decides to overtly promote it.
Short term, we need to deal with these savages ISIS. We can’t let them overrun Iraq. If they overran Bagdad I believe the whole region falls into chaos. It just opens up all kinds of escalation. Jordan would probably fall, Iran would get involved in repelling them. It would get ugly.
Long term, we need to deal with the Iranian bomb. We can’t let them go nuclear, period....
I don’t want the Mullahs to have nuclear weapons, nor do I want ISIS (Daesh) to somehow get them.
Certainly interesting thoughts. It’s attractive. I must think about it and how it would practically work? :)
Damned straight. But if, to defeat DAESH, America makes a devil’s bargain with Iran, we’re all in deep s@#t.
Yeah. The French, the British, and their mutually backstabbing little games with regards to Syria and the rest of the region.
91.
“dug him up for halloween” is really funny:).
No, before. Saudi Arabia is irans number one enemy, Israel is just for publicity. We must stop our falling for Sunni propaganda and let Iran duke it out with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Israel should sit back and let the two evils fight each other to death
Yes. But lets take TJ is in context. Iran is not the same level of evil as Saudi Arabia or Pakistan
I just talked with a young man originally from Iran, now a Canadian citizen. He lives and works in California, now.
He said most people in Iran hate the mullah dictator government, who rule by force.
He said his brother wipes his ass with pages from the Koran.
He also said it is very, very corrupt and the religious extremists in power are mostly for money, with religion being their cover story.
The pa Islamist is Saudi Arabia. Iran is worse than an infidel nation in their eyes as it is shia
he was a socialist, yet, but not an Islamist
The Anglo-Iranian Oil co gave Britain more than 50% of the profits from the oil and refused to give Iran the 50:50 deal ARAMCO gave to Saudi Arabia
No, Mossadegh was never elected. Being “elected” by the members of government is an appointment. It’s not even “democratic”.
So when has it been okay to be a socialist so long as one is not an Islamist?
so he was not "elected by the members of governement" -- rather he was voted to parliament by the people and then elected to government by the representatives
Next -- so you acknowledge you were wrong to call him an Islamist?
He was a socialist, yes, and he would have been better than the Ayatollahs or communists. You take the lesser of two evils -- when the Brits got him out, their actions of taking out a democratically elected leader led to the destabilisation that brought in the Ayatollahs
I don’t recall calling Mosaddegh an “Islamist” nor did I mean to by accident if it looks like I did. I certainly did not mean to call him Islamist nor did I mistake him for same; I regard him as socialist.
That dissembling over prime ministers is specious; even the European Union claims that its Commissioners are installed “democratically” by that same notion. Clearly the position that Mosaddegh occupied is more powerful than that of the UK prime minister since he had to be removed from power forcibly; note that such power was accorded to him by the same Shah originally. Mosaddegh is not a figure to be defended at all.
Your friend is very right about mullahs & most of their minions.
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