On 3/26/14 11:38 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> When I say "America", it is to save me from typing out "The Obama White >> House" or "The Obama administration". > > Also very single-minded entities of course -- Great Akinetoi, > uninfluenced by conflicting currents of opinion. >
Of course it is influenced by conflicting currents of opinion. Obama is not Stalin or Hitler. But once the chief executive determines a course of action, he follows through. People like William Cockshott, Robert Fisk, John Rees et al were convinced during the "red line" rhetoric that a new Iraq war was in the offing. They were dead wrong. They were not able to figure out that Obama had no such intentions. Maybe one day he will change his mind and send a 100,000 soldiers into Syria to overthrow the Baathists and install a government made up of politicians whose "moderate" leadership was capable of saying things like this but I rather doubt it. http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2012/11/12/ahmed-mouaz-al-khatib-president-of-the-syrian-national-coalition-of-forces-of-the-syrian-revolution-and-opposition/ We should identify our own shortcomings and weaknesses that allowed Western powers to inject sectarian hatred in our societies in order to know why the talk about taking military action against Iran has become very normal. The bitterness in the hearts of Sunnis caused by the alleged Iranian-sponsored Shiite invasion of the Arab World is not a sufficient reason to be silent in the face of a possible military strike on Iran. If we suppose that we have 50% doctrinal differences and 20% juristical differences with Iran, we all know that we have 90% doctrinal differences with the wicked West. Iran’s possession of nuclear capabilities poses no threat to any Sunni but it will be a formidable deterrent to the evil powers that are rushing madly upon the Muslim World. The aggression against Iran is an upsurge of Western domination to snap at the riches of this region and deepen the cultural and social invasion of our Muslim World. In all honesty, it is genuinely logical and Islamic to refuse any action against Iran and to consider such action an aggression against the whole Muslim World. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
