July 27, 2009 06:30 PM
Mouthpiece For a Dying Regime
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Fareed Zakaria got into a little spat over the weekend when he interviewed via satellite Tehran University Professor Mohammed Marandi. Zakaria grew exasperated with Marandi's efforts to minimize the brutal crackdown in Iran. Marandi blamed opposition leader Mousavi for causing civil unrest within Iran after the election, and the United States and other western countries for urging Iranians to riot, in the hope of regime change. Zakaria compared Marandi to the 1980's era Soviet officials who "spoke perfect english, where everything was fine" until it all collapsed, asking if he too will one day be viewed as a "mouthpiece for a dying repressive regime."
OK, I'm not defending the Iranian Regime here, but holy crap was Fareed dishing out the propaganda on this or what? The US didn't arm Iraq in that war with chemical weapons? Isn't that why we knew they had them? He gets defensive that Iranians think the US media is biased? Why, because they have called Iran an Axis of Evil for eight years now?
Maybe in his next op-ed on the topic of "Why They Hate Us" he can just say it's because of blustering hacks like himself.
Fareed's greatest hackery:
However Justified, America Will Not Initiate A War With Another Country Without A Specific Provocation. We Are Simply Not Going To Do It.
If the administration wants to take military action against Iraq--and I believe it should--it will have to find a provocation, a casus belli. Some suggest that we push Saddam Hussein and hope he reacts.
Iraq is surely producing weapons of mass destruction.
Bombing Works!
The Appeal Of Osama Bin Laden's Fundamentalist Ideology Is Fading, Even In The Arab World.
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Yeah, way to get tough on those Iranians and their brutal abuse of human rights... When do you plan on interviewing Bush or Obama torture supporters/apologists?
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
This piece really bothers me because Zakaria has somehow been given too much respect for his supposedly rational view on the Middle East. Yet, he dismisses Iranian accusations of US propaganda and interference in their election and it's aftermath as if it crazy talk. And that C&L would fall for this is disturbing too.
Wherever would the Iranians get the crazy idea the US would meddle in their affairs?
Just to name a few.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Ok, this guy bobbed and weaved and was pretty much a sad sack until he likened himself to the mouth of Sauron at the end of the interview. Tolkien? At the gates of Mordor? Wow, all the sudden I want to sign up for North American Studies 101 at the Tehran U.
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