re: Mujahedeen Khalq:
Realism wins again.
We want to put pressure on Iran.
So we support all and any groups who oppose Iran.
Even if they are terrorists.
Even if they have killed Americans, military and civilian, in the past.
Once again, as we have so often,
we set aside our ideals,
forget all the talk about fighting terrorism,
forget about upholding the rule of law,
forget about respecting other nation's sovereignty.
Forget the past.
Forget the future, when today's proxies may turn on us,
just like Saddam turned on us after we worked together to contain Iran,
just like Bin Laden turned on us, after we called Afghan Freedom Fighters
"the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers", when they were fighting the Soviets.
Realism.
Realism = short-term expediency
Realism = action unguided by any principles other than self-interest.
Realism = forgetting that the most important consequences, are likely to be the
secondary and tertiary effects,
which cannot be predicted.
Realism is not what the NeoCons promised, when they made the case for this war.
I wonder if any of the NeoCons are going to say,
"hey, shouldn't we be fighting terrorists........all of them?" |
