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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 75629" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p>Indeed it is. Nothing surprising in the article that I saw. I do believe that we are engaged in an exercise of region building in the middle east. Now when Iran looks over at its neighbors backyard he will see this hulk of a man flexing his enourmous biceps. Thats us. I saw a piece the other night on one of the educational channels on Iranian women and their daily lives. I was impressed with how backwards their lifestyle was and how they were kept in check with religious fanaticsm. Whether religious or not I recognize that religion can be misused by mankind to keep people ignorant and oppressed. One of the things that has impressed me with one of the underlying problems with this region is the religious fanaticism of those people and how easily they can be stirred into action by some mulah speaking out. Here in the US we would look at the priest or pastor and say "you want us to do what?" and "because why?". There they immediately go running off in whatever direction that Mulah points them. </p><p></p><p>Thats where exposure to westernization I believe will eventually calm the nerves. Watching the catholics quietly prey in St. Peters square, listening to various news channels where the days issues are debated. Watching movies that continously portray terrorists as crazed killers yes even the cokes , pepsi's and twinkies. All will give them a means to compare their lifestyle and mindset to the rest of the world. Nationalistic pride will encourage them to retain their core sets of values while rejecting many that only a western awakening can help them shed. Exposure is the means and our glamourus western lifestyle the true atomic bomb that eventually wins the war. JMHO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 75629, member: 1912"] Indeed it is. Nothing surprising in the article that I saw. I do believe that we are engaged in an exercise of region building in the middle east. Now when Iran looks over at its neighbors backyard he will see this hulk of a man flexing his enourmous biceps. Thats us. I saw a piece the other night on one of the educational channels on Iranian women and their daily lives. I was impressed with how backwards their lifestyle was and how they were kept in check with religious fanaticsm. Whether religious or not I recognize that religion can be misused by mankind to keep people ignorant and oppressed. One of the things that has impressed me with one of the underlying problems with this region is the religious fanaticism of those people and how easily they can be stirred into action by some mulah speaking out. Here in the US we would look at the priest or pastor and say "you want us to do what?" and "because why?". There they immediately go running off in whatever direction that Mulah points them. Thats where exposure to westernization I believe will eventually calm the nerves. Watching the catholics quietly prey in St. Peters square, listening to various news channels where the days issues are debated. Watching movies that continously portray terrorists as crazed killers yes even the cokes , pepsi's and twinkies. All will give them a means to compare their lifestyle and mindset to the rest of the world. Nationalistic pride will encourage them to retain their core sets of values while rejecting many that only a western awakening can help them shed. Exposure is the means and our glamourus western lifestyle the true atomic bomb that eventually wins the war. JMHO [/QUOTE]
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