Iran will get the bomb. Not in spite of isolation, but rather because of isolation. History has shown that isolation is an ineffective method of conflict resolution. It serves only to help the regime in power continuing in power and their people isolated from knowledge and truth. Sanctions do not persuade just because they threaten.
Our foreign policy is to require a regime to change "before" we will engage them in trade, cultural exchanges, dialogue, education, mutual interests, sports competition, tourist exchanges and so forth. Yet it is these very activities that will, in the end, be the catalysts for change! Our foreign policy has had it backwards for a long time. We push to have the wars first, then we engage the people.
The Iranians are beautiful, talented, intelligent and interesting people... just like the Germans and Japanese, like the Russians and Vietnamese and the people of Iraq. Let us engage the Iranians before it comes to war. As Abraham Lincoln once remarked, "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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