On October 4, I wrote a piece here titled “What’s Missing From Time‘s Iran Timeline” about the magazine’s curious treatment of US-Iran history. Time had printed a sidebar graphic titled, “A History of Hostility—and Chances Missed.”
But as history goes it was remarkably thin on US actions that one might consider hostile—like the 1953 coup, the shooting down of a civilian airliner, or support for Iraq in its war against Iran, which included backing that country’s use of chemical weapons.
On October 15, Time‘s Michael Crowley wrote a piece for the magazine’s Swampland blog headlined “Four Good Reasons Why Iran Doesn’t Trust America: A Brief Survey of Justifiable Iranian Resentment.” Crowley notes that “it’s worth remembering that the US bears some blame for the poisoned state of the relationship between the two countries.”
Crowley ticks off four reasons Iran might not trust the United States—including the US-backed coup, the shooting down of Iran Air 665 and the US backing of Iraq’s use of chemical weapons.
In other words, everything they left out of their history of US/Iranian resentment.
Anyone like to learn the truth about Islamic Republic beyond the Zionist media propaganda – should read this article.
http://rehmat1.com/2011/11/13/iranians-beyond-israeli-hasbara-five-opinions/
To borrow a line from Roman Holiday: “So Happy”!
It’s funny but when I think of the Iran / Irag hostilities, I can recall a time we were welcoming the Iranians and selling them the old diesel boat designs, teaching them in our ‘submarine trainers’ for that class. Later we sent technicians and scientist to Iraq for nuclear power.
That was when they were our Enemy, and Iraq was our Friend, before it was Iraq that was our enemy and Iran was the Ally which then was followed by Iran being our Enemy and Iraq the Allly, which was followed by …
Small wonder no one remembers whose our enemy at the time. You need a players card to follow the Opera.
Wow, TIME; it’s not like this information is hard to find. It’s all over, and even on Wikipedia. In fact, I just read about the Airbus 655 last night!
Start there and look for links that could be valuable, and cross check sources. Read up on the Airbus 655. That is so tragic, and so is the way that we constantly diss a nation that hasn’t done one of those INSANEly popular “preemptive strikes, that so many arms dealers and warring nations love.Maybe the TRUST debate should start with a lack of agression as it’s baseline.
well for timeline lets go to the big one.Irans preemptive invasion of the united states of America.See that land our embassy sits on is the United states.So when they invaded and took hostage our people one could say never forget.I on the other hand would say just the opposite.We should not waste time on that history.Iran is a leading supplier and funder of terrorism world wide.That IS preemptive glorianna.That is today.As we speak.This is what is going on.Their rhetoric and actions speak even louder.So if you-all want to trust teir council of mullahs be my guest.Thier own people don’t by all accounts and polls.Even Obama who is as far from a wartime consiglieare as one could imagine,does not trust them as far as he could throw them.And lets dwell on that…..Please pray tell give me any press release where the Mullahs have spoken words of reconciliation.They dont exist.And they run the joint. Lock,stock,and barrel
I’ll withhold my praise until I see Crowley’s piece in the print mag with a corrected timeline. Otherwise the mea culpa is not much more than a TIME line.
I don’t know what’s funnier – the fact that the facility that cares for michael e even allows him computer access in the first place, or watching him struggle to squeeze the word “consigliere” in a sentence.
Janson you must be a lib.Your statement was 100% a personal attack .Ever notice thats all ya got anymore?Your even better at it when you don’t even know the person your insulting.And who is this “facilty that cares”you speak about?The term” wartime consigiere” comes from Mario Puzo’s book The Godfather.It denotes a man unprepared to make the hard calls in a life or death situation.
So, you think that Obama is a “as far from a person unprepared to make the hard calls in a life/death situation as you can imagine”? Good to know. You’re either stupid or trolling. The tenacity of your poor syntax suggests the latter. Even dumb people learn how to punctuate eventually, just by imitating other writing you may happen to read. No, there’s a deliberateness to your illiteracy.