US, Iran play with fire
By Ramesh Thakur | Thursday, October 4, 2007 | The Boston Globe
The writer is a former Assistant Secretary General of the UN. In his words:
“THE RECENT in-your-face introduction by Columbia University president Lee Bollinger of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have delighted the US audience, but it has compounded America’s image problem in the rest of the world….
…The political cost of a military option against yet another Islamic country will be much higher because of Iraq. US troops there are operating far from home and in Iran’s direct neighborhood. Meantime, the high price of oil, fueled by the Iraq war, has swelled Iran’s coffers and strengthened its bargaining position against threats of international sanctions.
The fixation with a fictional threat from Saddam Hussein thus now handicaps US efforts to deal with a real threat from Iran. Will America ever learn?….”…BS
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