Tuesday, October 7, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Barry Rubin: Just be our friend - '...Had the US been a mean bully in its treatment of the new Islamist Iran? On the contrary, Washington did everything possible to negotiate, conciliate and build confidence. We'll do almost anything you want, Carter and Brzezinski offered, just be our friend. Far from being appeased Iran demanded total humiliation -- turning over the fatally ill, deposed shah for execution - which even the Carter administration couldn't accept. Far from persuading Khomeini that the US was a real threat, the US government made itself appear a pitiful, helpless giant, convincing Teheran -- as Khomeini himself put it -- that America couldn't do a damn thing. His revolution and ideology were too strong for it...'
