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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Ok, if you say so. At least I don't see "american imperialism" everywhere.  |
I didn't mean american imperialism exclusively in the military sense, cultural and political dimension also play an important role.
You know what would be the first step in the US discussing (not imposing its will) with Iran ?
Re-estalishing diplomatic relationship between the 2 countries.
During the cold war, the Soviets were the arch enemy of the US and represented a real and concrete threat to everything the US believed in.
But still there was a Soviet embassy in Washington D.C. and a US embassy in Moscow.
Its not impossibile to normalize relationships between the US and Iran, but the americans cannot get over the whole islamic revolution thing. Its as if the clock just stopped during the hostage crisis. From then on Iran transofrmed itself into the embodiement of evil on earth.
My personal opinion (and surely it is not politically correct in any sense), is that the US picks on Iran and NK simply because the seem to be easy targets. Resolving the whole nuclear proliferation issue would require to bring Israel to the table and put them in front of the facts. It would require the 3 most volatile nations on earth, India Cina and Pakistan to abandon all nuclear ambitions. But since those countries are allies of convinience of the US, lets pretend they don't represent a threat to regional any maybe global scale.
Just my 0.02 €.