When the Divide & Rule tool runs amok !
Erich Fromm once said ; "The obsession with violence and destruction . . . are only further instances of the powerful attraction of necrophilia in the contemporary world." Keeping this in mind, in retrospect a Selvam Canagaratna interestingly concludes the following..... “One can’t teach old dogs new tricks, right? …….. Dead right! Worth remembering that for close upon three decades between the end of the 20th Century and the dawn of the New Millennium the US has, if anything, stubbornly persisted only in re-learning all the wrong lessons in the Middle East. [There’s ‘American Exceptionalism’ for you!] A few random examples will suffice to make the point: * At a state dinner in Tehran on New Year’s Eve, 1977, US President Jimmy Carter toasted the Shah by describing him as "an island of stability in the troubled Middle East", and went on to pay glowing tribute " to your leadership and to the respect and the admiration and love which your peop...