Saturday, August 26, 2006

A think tank thinks we have strengthened Iran.

The Chatham House think-tank think that the West's War on Terror has strengthened Iran and Iran is now the number one influence in the region. Read more here.

That's a bit of a bugger. But, not to worry a Pentagon advisor said Iran had it's own problems. He said that there were calls for autonomy by the Azeris, the largest ethnic minority in Iran, an insurgency by the Kurds and said that growing secularism meant some believed the government was out of tune with its people.

Whoopie Do Dah. That must describe quite a few countries, including ours. The English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh want autonomy. Insurgency from our embittered Muslims and the Irish and our government is out of tune with it's people.

With advisers like that I think I know why we seem to be in a little bit of a pickle.

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