The political establishment and the media have pimped out the
nation. The list of conflicts awaiting
us is long and bloody. Syria will not be the last
conflict. This has been a brief and incomplete overview
of what drives our nation, and where we are headed, the handlers and the willing
instruments (in the words of Clare Daly, pimps and prostitutes). We continue to sink our head in sand and hope
for a hero -- for 'something to happen'.
There is only one hope for the future, and the only one power that can
alter this destructive path: "We, The People".
[1] Chapter
6 reads: "The United States
could play multiple roles in facilitating a revolution. By funding and helping
organize domestic rivals of the regime, the United States could create an
alternative leadership to seize power. As Raymond Tanter of the Iran Policy
Committee argues, students and other groups "need covert backing for their
demonstrations. They need fax machines. They need Internet access, funds to
duplicate materials, and funds to keep vigilantes from beating them up." Beyond
this, US-backed media outlets could highlight regime shortcomings and make
otherwise-obscure critics more prominent. The United States already supports
Persian-language satellite television (Voice of America Persian) and radio
(Radio Farda) that bring unfiltered news to Iranians (in recent years, these
have taken the lion's share of overt US funding for promoting democracy in
Iran). US
economic pressure (and perhaps military pressure as well) can discredit the
regime, making the population hungry for a rival leadership......"
[i] Wieseltier, Leon,
"Israel meets Iran in Lebanon; The Wrong War", The New Republic, Apr 8, 1985.
[ii] Stephen R. Shalom, The United States and Iran-Iraq
War, citing Stephen Engelberg,
"Iran and Iraq Got 'Doctored Data, U.S. Officials Say," New York Times, 12 Jan. 1987, pp. A1,
A6.
[iii] Jan
Selby, "Water, Power & Politics in the Middle East;
The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
[iv] Donald
Wagner, "Evangelicals and Israel:
Theological roots of a political alliance", The
Christian Century, Nov. 4, 1998.
[v] Donald
Wagner, "Evangelicals and Israel:
Theological roots of a political alliance", ibid.
[vi] Colin
Shindler, "Likud and the Christian Dispensationalists: A Symbiotic
Relationship", Israeli Studies, March
31, 2000.
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