Here, Thomas Friedman does what he does best: offers a silly and very unintelligent cliche about the Middle East, typically reduced to his redundant dualities expressed in English of 8th graders. "Sadat argued that the future should bury the past and that Arabs and Muslims should build their future based on peace with Israel, integration with the West and embracing modernity. Khomeini argued that the past should bury the future and that Persians and Muslims should build their future on hostility to Israel, isolation from the West and subordinating modernity to a puritanical Islam." But here is the problem: what if you are an Arab or an Iranian who cares about democracy and human rights? Both Khumayni and Sadat were enemies of human rights and democracy. And Friedman does not know that Sadat unleashed the Muslim fundamentalists, just as Khumayni did.
From the Angry Arab
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Your link is off on this one TGIA.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/opinion/26friedman.html
I see dumb shit is at it again. One of my favorite ones (and they are legion, because this simpleton is beloved by the simple minded) is comparing animosities between Shia and Sunni to a bad marriage...
Thanks v..It's not available anymore. Only on subscription.Oh, bother..
ReplyDeleteI will tell you this much if it weren't for Imam Khomeini their probably would have not been a successful resistance movement against Zionist Israel's land grabs like Hezbollah...And Iran would have probably not have been sovereign like it is today...Iran needs to deal openly and honestly with its corruption whcih will end up being its downfall if it doesn't...
ReplyDeleteSo when did Israel start caring about Democracy and human rights for the native Palestinian people? Or even its Arab/Muslim neighbors?
ReplyDeleteThe Iranian people are not sovereign. They are ruled by dictators. Most countries are sovereign democracies.
ReplyDeleteIran is a sovereign nation and not all Democracies are sovereign anand...So you believe that the American people are sovereign? I have a bridge to sell you which is called the MacKinaw, LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnyone ruled by you or your people (democracy or not) are soverign, right? Everyone else (democracy or not) isn't?
ReplyDeleteHow is Iran sovereign? Can Iranians select their leaders?
The nation of Iran is sovereign in that no outside country dictates its policies to the Iranian nation anand...
ReplyDeleteThe Iranian people selected their leader from a list of leaders approved by the guardian council anand...
ReplyDeleteSo who do you think selected our two party system candidates for President anand, the American people or the money of the most rich and powerful American people?
I noticed that you made no mention of Iran needing to deal with it's internal corruption anand. Is it because you think that internal corruption is what will make Iran's people sovereign in the sense of electing the leaders that you and the U.S. would approve of? In other words, do you think that it is Iran's internal corruption that will make Iran into a Democratic capitalitic state that is aligned with U.S. and western interests?
ReplyDeleteDo the American people truly sovereignly select their own leaders in our two party system anand, or do those with the money and power in effect select our leaders for us?
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