Aggression, fascism, strategy and logic - discussion from previous LS site. Why, and when, should we support the US overthrow of fascist regimes?
Policy on Iran - This thread starts with a link to a Christopher Hitchens article, which asks what the Left should do about the priestly regime in Iraq. After a brief reply with some links, a very strange cat indeed is thrown amongst the pigeons. The reply says that "most of the material appearing on current US and Iranian strategic intentions is disinformation". Suspicion is that Shi'ite Iran and the USA are in an unspoken alliance, since Sunni militants like Bin Laden and the Wahabi fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia are their common enemy.
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This thread starts with a link to a Christopher Hitchens article, which asks what the Left should do about the priestly regime in Iraq. After a brief reply with some links, a very strange cat indeed is thrown amongst the pigeons.
The reply says that "most of the material appearing on current US and Iranian strategic intentions is disinformation".
Suspicion is that Shi'ite Iran and the USA are in an unspoken alliance, since Sunni militants like Bin Laden and the Wahabi fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia are their common enemy.
Also flatly stated that the USA has no capability to invade Iran, and also that they don't want to.
Goes on to discuss belief that regime change on Saudi Arabia is what the US neo-conservatives really want.
The article then turns to the fact that Islamic parties like Hamas are now able to win elections. Some people say that this is a failure for US policy, while suggested in return that this was inevitable, given that the USA really wants to spread capitalist democracy throughout the Middle East. Not because it is nice, but because it has no choice at all.
The thread ends with a challenge for the Left to reply to President Ahmedi-najad's letter to President Bush.
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