Posts Tagged ‘foreign policy’
I remember the Republicans used to say that foreign policy differences ended at our shore line! I guess that does not apply when they want to criticize President Obama and his handling of the Iranian Crises! Yet the Republicans and their fellow travelers in Halliburton had no problem doing business with the terrorist nation of Iran’s Mullahs! (See Video below)
These CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who want to be the pals of terrorists not only Iran but China also. Isn’t it amazing how the Republicans criticize our President in these difficult times yet I did not see them attempting to place a hold on American companies doing a “CUT AND RUN” to China after Tiananmen Square to make a buck! What is even worse is that brave students are using the internet as a means of communication in both the current Iranian and Tiananmen Square revolt. Yet American Corporations in their pursuit of profit before people have even assisted the Chinese Government in policing their internet and capturing dissidents! (See video below).
We live in an era of licentious permissiveness where “Individual Freedom” is subjugated to needs of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others. Did they care about the freedom loving students of China? Yet these same pompous asses preach “individual freedom” and the danger of big government! What about the effects of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS with their usage of K Street on the American body politic?
The Republicans say President Obama is timid and weak in dealing with Iran and they mock him for his past desire to talk to the Iranian leadership about their nuclear program. Yet they have no problem talking to China and shipping American jobs, technology and wealth to China as long as they profit from such transactions. We in the Middle Class have seen these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS conduct a massive wealth redistribution program from the middle class to their own pockets while our national security suffers from such transactions!
President Obama realizes that both candidates in the recent Iranian Presidential elections were similar. However the followers of Mir Hossein Mousavi are evolving. First they opposed Ahmadinejad but now they are moving against their Supreme Leader and this could place them in opposition to the entire concept of the “Islamic Republic”! The crucial factor is not only their leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, but the educated classes of the cities! By being placed in this evolving situation they are becoming outcasts of the Islamic Republic and ripe for conversion to real change! Hopefully as I mentioned in my prior post, to restoring some sort of Constitutional Pahlavi Monarchy!
Understand this crucial factor:
Change of that nature comes when anchors are cut. That is the reason for Obama’s reaction. Not simply that the Fundamentalists will crack down if we speak up. That is not the issue. The issue is the attitudes of the Iranian middle class in the cities. If the masses feel America is threatening them then the fundamentalists will succeed in their propaganda. Remember the VIETNAM WAR when blue collar workers where recruited by Republicans to fight the college students? The fundamentalists in Iran are attempting a “Richard Nixon” on the Iranian Silent Majority! They are claiming to be the advocates of “law and order” and defending the nation. Richard Nixon made the middle believe communists where behind the peace movement. The Islamic Fundamentalists are saying it is “the great Satan America”.
Yes the time is coming when Obama can come out of the closet and attack the fundamentalists.
But in social psychology when you wage psychological operations you change attitudes when the individual comes to the conclusion on his own. The young of Iran are now coming to that conclusion and most importantly “owning that conclusion”! As that occurs then we must overtly support them. Till then we must twitter away the time while using covert operations!
Let us just hope that American Multinational Corporations don’t sell their internet expertise to the current Iranian government! The time has come for all Americans to rally around our President!
Yes I am a Social Democrat and voted for Jimmy Carter. I believed the Shah had to go at the time. Now I feel the opposite. Partially because I believe both Liberals and Persian Monarchists have both matured.
While our direct support could hurt the forces of “Change” in Iran, I do believe in the Audacity of Change and that the vehicle for such change is the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in a Western Constitutional framework! While the Shah has passed on, his son the Crown Prince, is alive and capable of becoming the new Shah. (See the video of him below) History has given the Crown Prince the opportunity to serve his nation by becoming a Constitutional Monarch whose future, like the restored Spanish Monarchy is to serve his nation as a respected “Referee” and Constitutional Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
Above the Crown Prince addresses an audience at an American University. Despite the fact that his father had some flaws, under the Shah, Iran advanced in Western Liberal values. I believe his son has learned from the mistakes of the past. I believe we western Liberals have also learned and matured.
Under the Shah there was religious tolerance. The older religion of Iran “Zoroastrianism” has suffered under the mullahs. This heritage of Persia must not be snuffed out by extremists!
If we who label ourselves as “Liberals” decry religious fundamentalism and the Christian Right then we should also decry Islamic Fundamentalism. Just as we should denounce “atheistic fundamentalism” of communist states. All of the above have their rational tolerant advocates. The two films above show the pride that many Iranian “Persians” take in the monarchy and their history.
When a monarchy acts like the British and now Spanish Monarchies they insure the survival of Western values and freedom by placing their future not as “rulers” but as respected “referees” who enable “Parliamentary Democracies” to flourish without fear of a military takeover or one party rule. The forces who are fighting Ahmadinejad are slowly realizing that the so called “Islamic Republic” is as dangerous as we view a Christian theocracy. By the way I am an Episcopalian not an atheist.
While a Constitutional Monarchy is not for us in America, I strongly support the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in Iran in a Constitutional framework!
