Tuesday, June 30, 2009

BEWARE THE DREADED IRANIAN CURSE


By Eric Margolis

"We keep making the mistake of dealing with each new foreign crisis as a distinct and unique event, rather than as part of a historical-political continuum. Here is a sad example:

In 1982, my old friend and Georgetown University Foreign Service School classmate, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, was executed in Tehran after mounting a failed attempt to overthrow Iran’s Islamic Republic.

I cite Sadegh’s death because of the increasingly strident demands by Republicans and some pro-war Democrats for President Barack Obama to intervene in Iran’s post-electoral crisis.....

America’s past involvement in Iran has too often produced fiascos, or worse. In fact, Iran has become something of a curse for the United States. This is one political-historical continuum we need to remember."

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