A Sunday Morning Thought...

Here's something to think about when discussing the future reguarding Iran.

So many here believe the differences between the two countries are irreconcilable due to mad fundamentalists in Tehran. Irrational creatures from another planet content on blowing up all infidels. However, why is it Ahmadinejad has no problem publicly embracing and conspiring with an infidel like Venezuela's Chavez? Why are they able to deal with Putin who's Russia is at war constantly with Muslim Chechnya's? My point is let us think very carefully before we have another Iraq.

I have always been of the mindset that we could have made peace with Saddam after the first Gulf War. Instead the policy from Bush 41 through Clinton was to contain and strangle the "madman," basically backing him into a corner. Now that we all have a much better idea of what sort of a primitive, tribal mentality world the Middle East really is, is it any wonder that Saddam had no alternative but to defy us? If he did not, he would have been taken for weak at the water hole and overthrown from within for sure.

My point here is not to cry about what has been done in Iraq. We must deal with it as it currently is. However, lets not repeat it with Iran. When I see Ahmadinejad hugging Chavez, I'm not buying into that Islamic madman kill all infidels bit. I believe that with a strong, consistent, concentrated effort we can find common ground with Iran without compromising Israel. Let's not box another nutty group into a corner.

Iran and Venezuela back oil cuts
BBC News 01/14/07

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6258243.stm