Jim Devine wrote: > > > People of the Middle East are obsessed with symbolism, especially > when it strongly supports honour and dignity. When a statement by the > Supreme National Security Council of Iran says it will reply by August > 22 to the western incentive package to stop enriching uranium, it > chose that date for a very precise reason.
If you go back to WW2 literature you will find innumerable references to the Japanese being obsessed with "saving face" (while, by implication, no american would be so concerned). U.S. ideologists do have a tendency to look in the mirror and project the result on the rest of the world. Carrol
