Fareed, it was a tacky job. You sounded just like an employee of CNN and not an independent and thoughtful opinion maker. Fareed Zakaria did a hit job on Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, today on his hour-long program on CNN. Would you like Condoleezza Rice (US Sectary of State) to be spoken to in a similar tone by a foreign journalist? Or is it that the Americans are superior to the rest of the world? Who decides that only a certain country should have nuclear weapons? Is Pakistan safer than Iran? Who decides?
Barack Obama is probably right when he laments that it is the mind-set in this establishment that has perpetuated such an arrogant foreign policy. And I am not just talking about the political establishment but the media that talks like a super-power. If this is the way we conduct ourselves, dealing with friends and foes alike, we would be completely isolated. Nobody cares about our opinion in any case. Everyone seems to be freelancing. The world becomes unstable and dangerous in the meantime.
Why should Iran not feel threatened? After what the United States, Great Britain and the Russians have done to that country, during the last 100 years or more. Iran is the inheritor of the Great Persian Civilization, once a superpower in its own right. The total population of Iran is upward of 70 million people. Two thirds of the population is under twenty five years old. The country and its people have great potential. They are just going through a bad patch. Their political leadership is not exactly friendly to the world. Did we not have a Richard Nixon for a while? Do you think Nixon was more rational than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Ask anyone in India!
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