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[quote=Anonymous]I'd love to go on at length about this also but I don't have time right now and I just want to say that I completely agree with Jeff that the tone of the US discourse in this area is increasingly reminiscent of the way the population was conditioned in 2003 to accept the need to invade Iraq.

The WSJ just had a front page article discussing US fears of ties between Shiite Iran and Wahhabi Sunni Al Qaeda, which seems about as insightful as connecting, say, Napoleon with Genghis Khan because they were both despots who conducted invasion campaigns. When was the last time we were duped into believing that a despotic regime had ties with Al Qaeda, folks? That it had WMD that threatened us on our soil?

The rhetoric that Ahmadinnejad uses is solely designed to appeal to a very narrow base throughout the region that has nothing better to do than fantasize about Israel's demise. It is no more genuine or earnest than Bush's assertion's that the terrorists who attacked us did so "because they hate our way of life."

IMO one of the biggest (epic) mistakes that Americans (and to some extent, some of the dumber individuals in the leadership--usually neocons of some kind) make over and over again in foreign policy assessments is assuming that ruthless, despostic regimes who oppose us are irrational. The second biggest mistake is assuming that the seemingly toadying despotic regimes we prop up somehow love us or worship our glorious "way of life" instead of pursuing their own agenda--until everything eventually blows up in our face.[/quote]

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