They have lived under the reaction to the reaction to the initial offenses of the late 50's. We would have unseated the Saudis had they not been fairly malleable and willing to play as long as we did not mess with them. The Israelis are akin to the persians. They survived the events of Hitler, and have become a very reactionary and dangerous society. The bulk of the population has no personal knowledge of what their grandparents went through, and have built up a mythos based on the stories they are told, not what they have done themselves. Iran has the mythos of our meddling, the rise of the shah, and the reaction that caused the ayatollah to show up. Thirty years on, they have their parents to tell them stories of how it was under the shah, or listen to grandma.
In the meanwhile, they are just as greedy for western things as the chinese. It took them 25 years after Nixon to become a viable threat to our economy. In the past 18 years, they have destroyed our industrial base, flooded our markets with garbage and bought up all our debt. We have become enslaved to the chinese. Will it take forty or sixty years before we rise up? clay On Sep 11, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Scott Ritchey wrote: > > Given the median age of the Iranian population (27 years), it's hard to > believe events over 60 years ago have direct significance to them. Most of > them were born in the current Islamic Republic. If these folks have > heartburn about events during and after WWII, it's only because they have > been trained to believe that way, not any actual personal experience. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Peter > Frederick > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 6:44 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Factoid > > Almost all of our problems with Iran have been a result of the rather > brutal and heavyhanded meddling we did, along with the British, during > and after WWII. > > They are, after all, natural allies, since they don't want to be > occupied by Russia, who has had it's beady eye on their natural > resources for about 200 years, and actively been attempting to grab > them since the 1850's. > > The Ayatolla was our repayment for Eisenhower's treatment of Mossedah. > > Peter > > ______________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
