the
Odd Couple?
Ahmadinejad
Ariana Huffington, in her HUFFPOST for Wednesday, June 13,
2012 wrote:
Arianna Huffington: With the war there
officially "ended" and most of our troops back home, Iraq Iraq 's closest partnership is no longer with the
U.S. but with its Shiite
neighbor, Iran Iraq
To my mind,
it’s unfortunate that Ariana is so filled up with dislike and disdain for the
work of George W. Bush, in invading Iraq.
She joins a
great gaggle of like-minded folk, and that is her privilege. However, I can’t forget all the Kurds and
other Iraqis that Saddam Hussein murdered, using “weapons of mass destruction”
on his own people. I can’t forget that
he had established himself as an outlaw in the world, and an outspoken enemy of
the United States . Although he seems to have cared little for
Islam or religious matters, when it came to joining in Jihad against the United States ,
he wanted to be Number One. President
Bush saw him as a clear and present danger to the United States , and took him
out. In removing Saddam and his circle
of Sunnis, the majority Shiites finally came out into the light in Iraq .
It’s not
terribly surprising that Iraqi Shiites, now that for the first time in many
years are the ruling class, would seek out their fellow Shiite neighbors to the
east, even though in previous decades the fact that Iraqis are Arabs and
Iranians are Persians meant a whole lot more.
However,
almost exactly coinciding with the end of the Cold War, Muslims world wide have
gotten a new whiff of something exciting.
Ariana
writes about the “saber-rattling” circles of Washington ,
D.C. and how the prospect of any unity between
Iraq and Iran is first
ironic, and then, dangerous. I agree
with Ariana that a simple Washington reaction
to such a union might be to rattle sabers, since some have tried to paint the
poor Iranians as the modern-day bête noire, a rather weak replacement for the
Soviets of the USSR .
Before we
leap to too many conclusions, we should watch how Iraqi-Iranian cooperation
plays out. It could be a very
interesting match, and it is certainly not a foregone conclusion that the two
nations will live happily ever after.
They have too much bad blood between them.
In the
meantime, official Washington
seems to fret and stew over the Iranians’ development of a nuclear weapon.
I suspect
that in the quiet recesses of the Israeli government, and the United States
government, there is an awareness that the Iranians are going to have several
unfortunate things happen to them before they can produce their dream
weapon.
I don’t
know what those unfortunate things are, but I have a feeling that the Iranians
are playing with something that they do not fully understand, and it will do
them more harm than anyone else.
Although Iran has made loud remarks about wiping Israel off the
map, the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, don’t trust the
Iranians. The Pakistanis don’t trust
them. And all over the world, especially
in the United States ,
are hundreds of thousands of Iranians who would dearly love to reclaim their
old country, and reclaim their motherland from the mullahs.
An Iran that rid itself of old bearded men who dream
of taking the nation back to the seventh century could become a jewel in the Middle East , with trading partners all over the world,
and all the ingredients for becoming an important member of the Free
World.
Samuel W. Coulbourn
Now, the Personal Navigator would like to
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Wild
Flowers; Three hundred and sixty-four full-color illustrations with complete
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“Attempts to Christianize the Indians”
Connecticut
Evangelical Magazine, Volume III; bound volume of numbers 1-12, from July 1802
to June 1803; Williams, Nathan, D.D.
Editor et al 1803 Hartford ,
CT Martha's Vineyard , continued from Vol. II. On the Revival of Religion in
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Evangelical Magazine, The; Vol. IV, Consisting of 12 numbers, to be published
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Williams, Nathan, D.D.; Smalley, John, D.D.; Day, Jeremiah, D.D.; Trumbull,
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Medical
Brief Monthly, The--Exclusively for and in the interest of the Medical
Profession. August, 1907 Lawrence, J.J., A.M., M.D., Editor 1907 St. Louis , MO
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