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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Why isn’t Hank dead?
Is he having a 60s flashback???
Sounds like he’s lost his marbles.
He’s old - he thinks the Shah is still in charge.
Did someone dig him up for Halloween? I thought Henry checked out not long after Studio 54 closed down. What is he now, about a hundred?
Senility happens.
The people of Iran are actually pro-Western. The religious leadership is the “Death to America” crowd.
Ever wonder why Obama did not lift a finger when the Iranian people were fighting against the government?
He’s 91 now.
Funny how his Nobel Peace Prize was a joint award to him and Le Duc Tho of all people (the Vietnamese mass murderer and founder of Vietnam’s Communist Party).
IMO, all of this agitprop is a sign that Obama is going to bow to the mullahs to include them in an Axis with Gulf Arabs to sink Russian budget via oil market and it is how they are prepping a public opinion.
It is not that I disagree with the factual component of this article and that Iran has a potential to become friendly with the West, but here is why they do brings it out.
Nations, like people, don’t always- or even usually- act in their best interest.
If that were true, they never would have put up with the Revolutionary Guard and/or the Mullahs and would have overthrown them already; they would have insisted on keeping the Shah to boot. You can’t repress a whole country of Neda Agha-Soltans.
There is much truth in what Mr Kissinger says.
The majority of the Iranian people are pro-western.
Jimmy “The Fool” Carter is the one who blundered and turned an ally into an enemy. The Iranian people have been suffering due to Carter’s idiocy for a long time now.
The people of Iran are very pro-Western. Much more so than almost any other ME country.
It would change the dynamics of the situation and as it currently sits, a nuclear Iran is the single greatest threat to world stability.
~The people of Iran are actually pro-Western. The religious leadership is the Death to America crowd.
Ever wonder why Obama did not lift a finger when the Iranian people were fighting against the government?~
You are 100% right. Situation is a bit different now when it was at the time though.
Maybe?
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The educated half of Iran is a natural ally, unfortunately there’s a large enough segment that is religious enough to support the regime.
Unlike our alliance of convenience with the Saudis, whose population pretty much universally is at odds with the West.
Evil sustains. That’s how Helen Thomas survived for so long.
During the Paris talks, Kissinger privately referred to his North Vietnamese counterparts as “tawdry little shits”.
Nobel peace prize=Crackerjacks prize
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