Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Alleviating Iranian Security Concerns (Managing the Iranian Challenge. Part III.)

No one, not even an Iranian decisionmaker, knows what kind of deal Tehran would accept in order to reach an accommodation with the U.S. that truly addressed Iranian concerns because Tehran has never been offered such a deal. Talk is cheap; when the deal is on the table and one must either take it or walk away, the situation is different.

The U.S., not Iran, is the superpower. The U.S., not Iran, is the nuclear power. The U.S., not Iran, has invaded and occupied countries on Iran’s border; Iran has occupied no one and poses no threat to the U.S. mainland. The U.S., and—even more—its regional superpower ally/client Israel has threatened to attack Iran; Iran has insulted Israel and hoped for its collapse but has not threatened to launch an attack. Washington must make the first move.

Shadowed Forest of World Politics.

April 15th, 2009 | Category: imperialism, militarism, military/industrial complex, totalitarianism/corporatism/fascism, war and peace | Leave a comment |

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