How Much of a Threat Is Iran to the US?
Does all the Iran talk sound crazy and paranoid to anyone else?
This is Fareed Zakaria writing in Newsweek last year:
"Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?"
Oh and, in 1954 the US overturned Iran's democratic, popular govt. and replaced it with a vicious autocrat; in the last six years we've invaded its two nearest neighbors and deposed their governments; our ships patrol its outlet to the sea; and we have declared it part of the axis of evil.
No wonder they want a bomb.
This is Fareed Zakaria writing in Newsweek last year:
"Iran has an economy the size of Finland's and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?"
Oh and, in 1954 the US overturned Iran's democratic, popular govt. and replaced it with a vicious autocrat; in the last six years we've invaded its two nearest neighbors and deposed their governments; our ships patrol its outlet to the sea; and we have declared it part of the axis of evil.
No wonder they want a bomb.
