[lit-ideas] Re: Iraqi problems caused by Iran (1)
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:28:13 EST
In a message dated 2/5/2006 11:16:02 A.M. Central Standard Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
but letting Iran destabilize Iraq is another thing that is not an option.
Hi,
Thanks, btw, for posting the information from that book. It is informative
and also helpful not to have to either go request yet another title (I have too
many checked out ... will end up not knowing where they all are--as I read
as Paul Stone does and Dickens did...and also being on the budget that I am, I
try to avoid purchasing books whenever possible...though I will have to soon
as I heard my cousin has written a book which my mother has stated was a
good thriller/science fiction type [Chromosome 8])
Surely Iran has not JUST begun to do all those actions which you are stating
need to be dealt with? Surely our forces there (as well as our grand
military strategists who are left in that official capacity) are well aware of
this
and have been working hard to close the borders, etc.? I remember
hearing/reading about that a long time ago. Granted, watching/closing borders
is
obviously not a skill that our government is very good at <wry look>, but
still--seems like smashing another country just because we cannot close
borders
seems a bit extreme. (I can understand the nuclear weapon argument far better
than this one <g>)
(Though from what I know of Iraq/Iran and the rhetoric from both and knowing
how secular most of Iraq was and how oh...it's treatment of women, education
of girls, best healthcare in the Middle East, highest number of middle
class, etc.--seemed like if one had had to choose a bad guy to go after--Iran
might have been a more important target--esp if they are the ones who are the
originators of the fundamentalist Islamic theology that is permeating the
area.
NOT that having one's soul scream because of what has happened and/or should
have been actually does much that is constructive, I know. <sigh> [though
sometimes it lets that emotion out so that you can then look at the situation
a
bit differently...]
I just think, again, that there are so many who are NOT of that
fundamentalist strain--I have read countless articles about the desire of the
younger set
(esp) for modernisation/interest in other parts of the world, etc., not to
mention the archaeological history that would be destroyed by yet another
destructive war in that area--
Go back to your surgical strikes, okay? <g> If we *have* to do
something--at least let's destroy the fewest number of innocent littles...
Best,
Marlena in Missouri
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