spinning iran
If you read just one article today, do just one thing to understand the world a little better, I recommend that it be to read Spinning Iran on Rafe Colburn's blog.
Bush's rhetoric about "War with Iran" is more neocon (read: pro-Israeli lobby) nonsense. The Newsweek "photo gallery" is like a page out of 1984. US diplomats are negotiating with Iranian diplomats now, brokered via Russia and Qatar. The results of those negotiations will be normalized relations, which are slated to become Bush's legacy (what's left of it).
The age of the "Great Superpower" is over, the Kissinger Doctrine failed, and with it goes the predominance of a whole other mess: Saudis, Tel-Aviv, etc. Welcome to a world where Asia becomes much, much more quintessential.
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Noam Chomsky provides detailed analysis about the situation vis-a-vis US, Russia, and Iran, in this this article.
In particular, the Asian security grid, now with Iran being added and Russia flexing its muscles, condemns the US geopolitical status to become a second-rate world power. Regardless of US consumption of oil.
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That’s scary. In particular, it’s dangerous in the case of the Middle East. China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.
Okay folks. Yours truly caught holy f-ing flack for opinions shared on the subject of Bush's team going to the table with Iran. Well it turns out the jingoists were wrong: Condi is heading over to party with the mullahs, it's a New York Times headline. Ha ha, f-ing ha.
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