Tag: International Relations

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
NETANYAHU PUTS A RED LINE ON AN IRANIAN BOMB CARTOON DURING A SPEECH TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN SEPTEMBER 2012. SCREENSHOT.

Some day historians will scratch their heads over the fact that for the better part of 20 years U.S. presidents were engaged as a leading foreign policy question in how to restrain Iran, a small country half the world away that has not attacked the U.S., that does not have nuclear weapons, that is the seat of ancient civilization, and whose contribution to regional instability doesn’t look any worse than Israel’s or Saudi Arabia’s.

Iran’s supposed threat to the U.S. is a scam Israel and its lobby promote to change the subject from Palestine

Almost every charge leveled at China today was leveled at Japan in the 1980s and 1990s.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

It is worth noting that on the economic front, almost every charge leveled at China today—forced technology transfers, unfair trade practices, limited access for foreign firms, regulatory favoritism for locals—was leveled at Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, Clyde Prestowitz’s influential book Trading Places: How America Is Surrendering Its Future to Japan and How to Win It Back explained that the United States had never imagined dealing with a country in which “industry and trade [would be] organized as part of an effort to achieve specific national goals.” Another widely read book of the era was titled The Coming War With Japan. As Japanese growth tapered off, so did these exaggerated fears.

Fareed Zakaria