29 June 2007
Winds of Globalization
The global interconnections of societies now make it impossible for us to tolerate foreign governments that tyrannize their own publics, even when, like Iran, they control strategic resources like oil and gas. On the other hand, warfare has become a terribly inefficient and outdated tool for eradicating foreign tyranny. The IT revolution offers much more effective methods, and insulates the attacker of a tyrannical regime from suffering international consequences for its action.
Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute advocated in the Wall Street Journal on June 25, 2007, the display of American strength through continued warfare in Iraq as a way to quell the aggressive policies of the Iranian regime. All this would demonstrate, on the contrary, is American stupidity. Iran showed its ability to withstand a bloody conflict, much better than the U.S., when it beat back the Iraqis in the 1980s.
The failure of the Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq should not be taken as a justification to continue a mistaken strategy. Our resources have to be rescued from the Iraq debacle and reserved for protecting our welfare from the threat of terrorism. Any resources that are left for promoting freedom in Iran should be used to encourage its people to wrest control of their own welfare from the hands of religious demagogues.
The global interconnections of societies now make it impossible for us to tolerate foreign governments that tyrannize their own publics, even when, like Iran, they control strategic resources like oil and gas. On the other hand, warfare has become a terribly inefficient and outdated tool for eradicating foreign tyranny. The IT revolution offers much more effective methods, and insulates the attacker of a tyrannical regime from suffering international consequences for its action.
Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute advocated in the Wall Street Journal on June 25, 2007, the display of American strength through continued warfare in Iraq as a way to quell the aggressive policies of the Iranian regime. All this would demonstrate, on the contrary, is American stupidity. Iran showed its ability to withstand a bloody conflict, much better than the U.S., when it beat back the Iraqis in the 1980s.
The failure of the Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq should not be taken as a justification to continue a mistaken strategy. Our resources have to be rescued from the Iraq debacle and reserved for protecting our welfare from the threat of terrorism. Any resources that are left for promoting freedom in Iran should be used to encourage its people to wrest control of their own welfare from the hands of religious demagogues.
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