| |||
|
|
messianic? apocalyptic? bullshit
What proof does anyone have that Iranian government is indeed a messianic apocalyptic cult? I mean, to the extent that it's an islamic society and as such it believes in a messianic apocalyptic cult (Islam), but so do the christians and the jews (and probably every other religion with a well defined eschatology). From everything else they publish on Iran as well as first hand accounts of people who visited it - it's a regular early postindustrial society not unlike the USSR right before collapse. They invest in public services, science, education and medicine. This is coupled with persian nationalism and some sort of a sense of world mission (again, not unlike the late USSR). People, who invest in medicine and science are not an apocalyptic cult, really. I wouldn't like them to have the nukes, but I don't understand how them having nukes is any more dangerous than Pakistan or Russia for that matter. Any conventional preemptive strike by Israel will be absolutely militarily disastrous and a non-conventional one - politically, morally and economically catastrophic, so I hope it doesn't happen. |
||||||||||||||