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For all his "Fiery Rhetoric", a term so widely used to describe him throughout AP and Reuters reports, Ahmadinejad (the Iranian President) has made a point that I can't help but nod my head to. Not that him as well as many Iranian officials haven't been saying this for a long time, but it seems he's put it more eloquently on his recent Indonesia trip, where he recently stated that it is every country's right, not just the United States, to use new technology to meet energy needs. And while the spectre of Nuclear Weapons is nothing to be ignored, perhaps this is a route towards peace. This is a chance for the United States to show that it is not totally hypocritical, and begin some realistic, frank negotiations.
But as requests for negotiations fly back and forth, neither side seems willing to accept the other. There is no room for compromise, it seems, between a nation that wishes Israel to be "wiped off the map", or a nation that invaded a muslim country under utterly false pretenses. It is sad that we are in no position to do the right thing, let alone the fact that our leadership makes too many prejudicial judgements to ever come to the correct conclusion.
I got to be honest, it seems like this conflict, just like half of the wars in the last 1000 years, revolves around the holy land. Myself being an agnostic at best, I am left distictly abashed by the religeous factors at play. What drives a people to guide their entire policy around superstition? Maybe that's what I need to understand, that religeon is more than just superstition.
But as requests for negotiations fly back and forth, neither side seems willing to accept the other. There is no room for compromise, it seems, between a nation that wishes Israel to be "wiped off the map", or a nation that invaded a muslim country under utterly false pretenses. It is sad that we are in no position to do the right thing, let alone the fact that our leadership makes too many prejudicial judgements to ever come to the correct conclusion.
I got to be honest, it seems like this conflict, just like half of the wars in the last 1000 years, revolves around the holy land. Myself being an agnostic at best, I am left distictly abashed by the religeous factors at play. What drives a people to guide their entire policy around superstition? Maybe that's what I need to understand, that religeon is more than just superstition.