Comments on: Soft Power http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/06/18/soft-power/ "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:22:57 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: thimbles http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/06/18/soft-power/comment-page-1/#comment-21870 thimbles Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:13:47 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=8941#comment-21870 Yeah, if you were to draw parallels between the Iraq attempted revolution in the aftermath of desert storm http://www.alternet.org/world/49864/ and the effect of the sanctions and the resulting rations where people head to depend on Saddam to get 40% of their daily needs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions the current Iran situation would look pretty grim. Luckily the parallels are small since the West a) supports the weakening of the clerical regime b) isn't getting involved in the course of the revolution. This is Iran's play to make or break. Iran is not China which has a population that will take a government massacre passively. The clerics don't have a lot of wiggle room. Yeah, if you were to draw parallels between the Iraq attempted revolution in the aftermath of desert storm
http://www.alternet.org/world/49864/
and the effect of the sanctions and the resulting rations where people head to depend on Saddam to get 40% of their daily needs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions
the current Iran situation would look pretty grim.

Luckily the parallels are small since the West a) supports the weakening of the clerical regime b) isn’t getting involved in the course of the revolution.

This is Iran’s play to make or break. Iran is not China which has a population that will take a government massacre passively. The clerics don’t have a lot of wiggle room.

]]> By: James http://thecrossedpond.com/2009/06/18/soft-power/comment-page-1/#comment-21869 James Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:17:26 +0000 http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=8941#comment-21869 Your memory of Desert Storm is incomplete. Your memory of Desert Storm is incomplete.

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