To quote John Stewart:Hey Iran, what are you doing? Do you know how hard we're working over here to keep President Bombs-A-Lot from throwing down on you guys?
Victor Davis Hanson has the following to say:
It's probably a good rule to do the opposite of anything the Iranian theocracy wants. Apparently, this government is now doing its darnedest to be bombed. So, for the time being, we should not grant them this wish.
Hanson suggests that Iran is trying to get attacked by the West in order to get others in the Middle East to like them again. Apparently, Iran's popularity is lowest, second only to Israel, at least according to Hanson.
So, it would seem that if we don't do anything, then Iran gets to demonstrate how it can take hostages and free women whenever it feels like it. If we attack them, then it's seen as another Western attack on Islam. It seems like there may be no good solutions here.
(BTW, one of the Western fears about Iran has been that the Iraqi Shia would align themselves with the Iranian Shia. I have an Iraqi Shia friend, who explained to me that while there are radical Shia fundamentalists, who may in fact have such intentions, the average Shia on the street really dislikes the Iranian Shia.)
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As exciting as all that is (and I'm not a Sir), I don't see what it has to do with the recent aggressions on the part of Iran. Also, the current existence of Israel is much more of a political, rather than a religious issue, in the West anyway, I think.
(Though it must be granted, that I grew up thinking that the Jews were still in an honored place as God's chosen people.)
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