I agree that nobody wants to be blown up by some maniac. And it's pretty clear that not all bomb-weilding maniacs are Middle-Eastern.
Iran supports Hizbullah, and Hizbullah is not a terrorist organization, as I've stated repeatedly in the past. The US backs Israel, which on our side of the world is a massive terrorist organization. Equally, in spite of world demands the US proceeded into Iraq, among several other contraversial operations.
Personally, I don't see a problem with Iran having nuclear capability, considering the US and Israel already have
nuclear weapons. It's only fair to have an equal force on the opposite side to maintain a balance of arms. Aside from that Iran wouldn't develop weapons just to launch them and start a chain reaction of mutually assured destruction. They certainly wouldn't nuke Israel, rendering the region uninhabitable. The objective is to retrieve the land, not obliterate it.
Regardless, I think the only reason the US and Israel don't want Iran to have nuclear capability is simply a matter of control. Iran gaining the technology would open up doors for the rest of the Middle-East to develop, and that means the US and Israel would no longer have the upper hand.
As for the matter of cultural ignorance and education, that's how certain governments maintain the support of the people. Let the people know only what you want them to know, and they'll back you. How else will you ensure a steady stream of funds and support?
For example, most of you guys easily support Israel and consider Hizbullah terrorists. That's only based on what you've been allowed to know. It's easy to believe whatever your gov't tells you about something that's happening so far away.
The fact is Israel, Iraq, Iran, and Hizbullah are all on the other side of the world, everything is happening on our side of the world. We're in it, we live it everyday, and we're telling you who's who, but you don't listen. You can't make judgements on something you know next to nothing about. You're allowed to comment, everyone's entitled to their own opinion ofcourse. Just as equally we have no right to make judgements about North American domestic affairs.
Your tax dollars have gone to funding wars all over the Middle-East, and developing weapons in Israel, but you don't question it. Now that's something you can make judgements about: your own administration. I mean they literally bombed Afghanistan back to the stone-age, and it was somewhat acceptable because it was considered retaliatory. That's fine, now what does the US want with the rest of the ME?
Following WW2, the US initiated activities in the Middle-East commonly related to the Cold War. They inserted their agents Afghanistan to fend of Russia, and in Iraq to fend off Iran. They created their monsters in our world for whatever agenda they had planned. We (Middle-Easterners) never asked for war, we never made any special requests for foreign invaders, and we have been pleading for many years to end the madness. But apparently we are just a bunch of savage beasts who need to be tamed or killed.
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Ok, I just read over the post and I sound kinda agressive.. Sorry about that, I was just in a heated argument with someone and it must have carried over. My bad. My points are still there though
