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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (77022)	6/12/2018 4:30:48 PM
From: Bill	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 364934

His diplomatic skills seem a lot more advanced than yours.

To: neolib who wrote (77022)	6/12/2018 6:56:00 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 364934

Neo, the Iran agreement was premised on the idea that Iran was going to modernize its economy and along with that, allow the Iranian people more Western type freedoms. Many European companies prepared for future business deals, and several actually set up shop. But nothing materialized. Iran used the money to advance it's military and weaponry and to foment military confrontations against Sunni arab countries and Israel through it's proxies. Very little new business accrued to those European countries that tried. One reason being the lack of protective legal structure and the other being that Iran still remained a very poor country with a government that wasn't focused on economic development. Obama made, in a way, the same mistake in thinking that Bush did when he invaded Iraq. Both men were misled by thinking that the rest of the world must surely want to be just like the West if only given the chance. That's a kind of arrogant misreading of foreign cultures and peoples, and most especially in the Middle East. It's only right now, in Saudi Arabia, that we have an Arab leader who is talking the talk of modernization, and it remains to be seen if this guy, Prince Salman, can walk the walk. Also, making comparison between NK and Iran is pointless, imo. Iran has the huge obstacle of being a fundamentalist Islamic country. NK is not under the sway of any religious thinking at all, and this makes NK far more flexible if it decides to reinvent itself.