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(Rob van Riel) wrote:
"Bill Silvey" Indeed. I'd much rather see Iran as a U.S. ally than not. The current Iranian "Generation-X" pretty much despises the Mullahs that run the country, and as often as they can (and in private) embrace western values. I might be delusional about all this, but my feeling is that if we all leave Iran in peace, in something like 20 years it could turn into a thoughroughly modern state. Still predominantly islamic, but the way many Western nations are predominantly christian, rather than the fundamantalist islam of the ayatollahs. Much as I dislike what happened there in the past, Iran might be our best hope of introducing a stable factor in the region, compatible with the Western way of doing things. And especially next to a (hopefully) stable Iraq. Saudi Arabia is about to hold elections, and I think it's safe to say their government is going to wobble around some as they move away from a tightly controlled monarchy. A developing Iran, a rebuilding Iraq could make Syria a little more likely to negotiate and be peaceable when they see their neighbors doing well. At this point I have precious little faith in the State Dept being able to do anything in this regard, though. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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