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Tehran, Iran -- Peacekeeping is indeed the primary task of the Security Council. But that task has been neglected for such a long time that the Middle East is in urgent need of a boldly enforced peace making plan. A durable plan with foreign troops on both sides of Israel's borders is needed.
Tehran, Iran - Recent events in the Middle East seem to justify scholar Samuel Huntington's rough view of racial purity and his resistance to intercultural encounters. He must be thrilled these days. War is a by-product of intellectual bankruptcy which presumes ingrained antagonisms between cultures.
Tehran, Iran - Hezbollah's impact on Lebanese politics is nothing new. It is a grassroots indigenous movement formed more than twenty-three years ago in reaction to the massacres of Sabra and Chatila -- Palestinian refugee camps -- by Ariel Sharon's army and the Phalangist forces in Lebanon. Hezbollah set out to rid Lebanon from foreign forces and their proxies.
Tehran, Iran - The United States' excessive spending in the Mideast and fiscal recklessness has led to a massive debt. This worries Asian countries that supply the U.S. goods. Like Bashir says, China might escape the consequences of this shifting U.S. demand for goods, but the impact on more fragile economies in the region will be significant.
Tehran, Iran - All wars must end. The United States must face reality in Iraq and announce a scheduled withdrawal. This move must be accompanied by several others actions in order to achieve stability.
We have to accept that we live in an era of intellectual rip-offs, tactics sold as policy and instant strategies broadcast live on TV. The show on the plastic box and talking-head spin-meisters will do the thinking and planning for us all. Accordingly, we lower expectations and shall not be surprised when we see childish games are sold as a mimic of statesmanship. His Excellency, the president of a superpower, is now demanding that the world forget what it knows and listen to his version of stories.
Welcome to commanding heights of hype with peculiar timing. It coincides with the issue of an Islamic banking license in Britain and a lively debate following the lecture of The Archbishop of Canterbury to lawyers when the highest clergy of the Church of England commented about the nexus of English and Islamic Sharia laws and a need for social policies and an aim to absorb British Muslims in the community.
Is the way Turkish women dress really worthy of world debate, and more importantly, does one's headwear symbolize what is in one's mind? And if it is a matter for world debate, should a superficial translation to English in the media suffice and reduce one's dress to a matter radicalization? Search the internet and it all has a whiff of Islamophobia. Simple-minded dark forces, with no mind for facts, are trigger happy to launch a collective punishment of all Muslims.
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