Lectura recomendada a los «aliancistas de cerebro pequeño». Porque ya se sabe que la lectura agranda los horizontes:
Amir Taheri, Newsweek International:
Eight years ago a pirated translation of Samuel Huntington’s celebrated essay «The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order» appeared in Tehran.
The publisher received an order for 1,000 copies, half the print run. «We wondered who wanted them,» recalls Mustafa Tunkaboni, who marketed the book. The answer came when a military truck belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrived to pick up the books. Among the officers who received a copy was Yahya Safavi, now a general and commander in chief of the Guards. Another went to one Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a former Reserve officer in the Guards who is now president of the Islamic republic.
Iran is grossly misunderstood in the West. Given headlines in Europe and America, you would think that the crisis in relations is about nuclear weapons. But the real cause is far broader: Iran’s determination to reshape the Middle East in its own image—a deliberate «clash of civilizations» with the United States. This is bound up with a second misconception about Iran, the idea that the regime is divided between «conservatives» who oppose accommodation with America and the West, and «moderates» more inclined to return their country to the community of nations. The real power in Iran, punctuated by the ascent of Ahmadinejad as president, is now the Revolutionary Guards.
Claro que lo mejor es leerlo todo.
Que sabrás tú, neocon vaticanista.
Iran has always played a leading role in Islamic history. It is one of only two Muslim nations never colonized by the Western empires. It occupies a central position in the «Islamic arc» stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. It has the largest economy and the strongest military in the Muslim world; it sits atop vast pools of rapidly appreciating oil wealth. The only other Muslim country capable of rivaling it—Turkey—has decided to abandon the Muslim world and join the European Union.
Vaya hombre, así que Turquía ha decidido «abandonar el mundo musulmán» y debemos estar agradecidos por que haya «decidido» unirse a la UE. Erdogan debe ser un independiente del GIL y no un islamista cliente de los príncipes guajabíes del golfo. Y visto el resultado que han dado los primeros millones de turcos en Alemania y otros lugares de Europa, nadie se cree que a nostros, los europeos, nos interese meter otros 15-20 millones en Alemania y encima participando en el proceso político de Bruselas con un peso relativo impresionante.