[MD] Hippies

[khaled Alkotob]

Hello Mike

Iran must be getting assurances from somewhere else, here are a few
possibilities.

1. Their cousins ( the Shiaa ) in Iraq
2. China
3. Russia
4. Brazil and Venezuela

They know that a war with the US is a unilateral one. The US won't be
putting any troops on the ground it will just be another shock-and-aw
bombing campaign.

As for the latest political uprising, well a friend and I were having
that discussion yesterday and he wanted to know why? Well that would be
the same answer as the Los Angeles Riots after the policemen were
acquitted in the Rodney King beating. Or as to way sports fans do what
they do when their team loses. The unexplainable. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Technically a Muslim should be offended the SAME whether that cartoon
depicted Jesus, Moses, Abraham or Mohammed. Unfortunately geopolitics
come in and it all goes to hell. It's a part of the world the west will
never understand. Just look at history.

They sure have the upper hand and they got 75 million to back them up.

I hope cool heads take over.

khaled

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:08:12 +0000 Michael Hamilton
<thethemichael at gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Khaled,
> 
> Puzzling, isn't it? I can think of 3 reasons why Iran would play-up
> its nuclear ambitions:
> 
> 1. It genuinely wants nuclear-powered electricity.
> 2. The fundamentalist theocrats in charge of Iran know perfectly 
> well
> that the suspicion of WMD provides the perfect way for the US
> adminstration to sell a war to its citizens (after all, it worked 
> for
> Iraq). And war is exactly what the proponents of violent, extremist
> Islam want, in order to radicalise the moderate Muslims of the 
> world.
> 3. The increasing tensions (represented by the cartoon controversy 
> as
> well as the nuclear scare) suit the fundamentalist theocrats of Iran
> just as much as they suit the hard-right leadership of America. This
> is the "1984" scenario, where both sides (fundamentalist Islamic and
> neo-conservative) use the fear of the other side in order to control
> their citizens. Basically, the extremists on both sides can only
> remain in power by virtue of the high-alert war atmosphere.
> 
> 2 and 3 are clearly linked, and need not exclude 1 from being true 
> as
> well. The over-riding theme is that both the US and Iranian
> leaderships are encouraging the WMD-propaganda in order to ensure 
> that
> we go to war. Those of us who equally despise both neo-conservatism
> and fundamentalist-Islam can only hope to stay out of the 
> cross-fire.
> For this reason, I'm extremely glad that UK newspapers have 
> refrained
> from publishing the cartoons.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
>