Following the example of the Cold War, that strategy should work after about 45 years!
Bob --- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/29/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > Excellent conversation here:
> >
> >
>
<http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/142247>
> <snip>
> > ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN:
> > the serious problem we
> > have now, which is we're at the abyss of war,
> basically. And there
> > are people pushing for war in the next few months.
>
> This is an example of the total cacophony on the
> Left. No consensus
> on even whether Washington is going to militarily
> attack Iran in "the
> next few months." Some think like Ervand Abrahamian
> above, Pham Binh,
> etc.; others think like Noam Chomsky*, Hossein
> Derakhshan, etc.
>
> What's clear is that Washington is already doing
> economic sanctions,
> covert actions, "democracy assistance," media
> propaganda, etc. against
> Iran and doing everything to escalate them. Why not
> focus on
> countering _what it is already doing_, instead of
> what it may or may
> not do? Besides, if we can roll back sanctions,
> etc. and get the USA
> to normalize its relations with Iran, that will at
> the same time be a
> measure against any idea of war.
>
> * Noam Chomsky says: "Despite the saber-rattling, it
> is, I suspect,
> unlikely that the Bush administration will attack
> Iran" ("Chomsky:
> There Will Be a Cold War Between Iran and the U.S.,"
> City Lights, 30
> July 2007, 31 July 2007,
> <http://www.alternet.org/story/58243/>).
> --
> Yoshie
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