Originally posted by Atlantis001
Well, I think it can be dangerous for Iran. They will be giving an excuse for the "West" to do their war against Iran.I am of the opinion that there are no bad people or good people. The nuclear disarming program is just an excuse to wage war. But what Iran did was a dumb thing, they should use the public opinion to help them to remain in peace. By doing what they did they are giving a justification for a war.
True.
Which makes you think, what happened to nagotiation and non-war process?
Everything which does not go according to (politically) Western powers is resulting in war.
In the media there are two understood truths about the world, which get recycled over and over again.
This "truth" revolves around two key intellectual propositions. First, "we" are the good guys. Second, "they" are the bad guys.
No news reporter would ever describe George Bush or Tony Blair as "playing his favourite role of defender of the free world".
And soit is an example of propaganda bias - we are being trained to feel contempt for the official enemy, to distrust their motives and sneer at their claimed values.
Which majority are doing as we speak.
And we have Max Hastings, the master at pushing anti-Iranian buttons. He recently advised -
"Iran represents a menace to the security of us all, not to mention what it must be like to live under that reprehensible regime." (Hastings, 'Iran, the vicious victim,' The New York Times, March 30, 2007)
This is not the FIRST time a country has been described like this. Our press has a habbit of describing every country which is not pro-American as ''menace'' and ''enemy of democrasy'' etc.
Iran is not sole to blame. Initiating that is unfair.