[lit-ideas] Re: Political position of Writers on Iran
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:50:21 -0800
Neither Robin Wright nor Ilan Berman said nothing before Rohollah Khomeini
came to Iran had any significance, but the outline of Shah Pahlavi's career
is well known, and going back into the details doesn't seem necessary or
relevant to either Berman's or Wright's project. Berman wrote about Tehran
becoming more powerful under the Islamists. Wright wrote about the Khomeini
years. To do what you want would be to write a different book -- apparently
twice.
As to your Saudi Cleric, are you being humorous like Mike? P.H. Lundbech
says I should try to be more tolerant.
Lawrence
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From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I've begun Robin Wright's In the Name of God, the Khomeini Decade, and she
> doesn't spend much time on the Shah or the CIA.
I'm reading a book by an Saudi cleric. It's the history of how the USA
attacks Arabs without
any cause or reason whatsoever. The history starts on Sept. 12th, 2001. Why
that day? He
says nothing before that date that has any significance.
I'm wondering, is he right to arbitrarily pick a start date for his history?
Is everything
before that date irrelevant? Can one see his intentions through his act of
ignoring
everything that doesn't fit into his worldview?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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