Sunday, January 27, 2013
Iran Backing Syria
On Saturday, January 26, Patrick J. Mcdonnel of the Los Angeles Times wrote an article called "Iran Issues Threatening Warning Against Attack On Syria". The article discusses how Iran has declared that if any foreign attack occurs on Syria, they will take it as an attack on them. The United States, Netherlands, and Germany have deployed Patriot Missile batteries across the Turkish border, with about 400 troops reports say. These can be used to either intercept Syrian jets, or Syrian rockets. NATO claims that these Patriot Missile batteries are strictly for defense purposes, but Iran thinks otherwise. This is a huge problem because Russia has joined this discussion also, and is backing Syrian and Iranian gains. Like predicted before, the Syrian conflict is slowly turning into an international conflict, and through these small measures taken by the western world, the Middle East and Russia can erupt. In my opinion, the western world should just back off and let Syria solve its problem alone, but it is already to late for that. Foreign countries have mixed into many areas of this conflict, and pulling out now can be a huge deficit and waste of time for these countries.
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As American citizens, we are often fed news from the media that is filtered in such a way that it is presented on the American point of view. This does not allow us to watch the news in full detail and judge based on the evidence presented. In the rising international conflict, the Iranian regime has been presented to us as a potential threat to world peace. This judgement was based on the sole fact that Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons. In the first place, it is wrong for any country to have the capabilities to completely wipe out another. It is quite hypocritical of America to promote world peace and discourage the development of nuclear weapons when they themselves have 67,500, enough to nuke the world about four times over. Iran should be free to stand behind its allies in the time of need just like we stand behind Israel when they need a helping hand. It is also a waste of American tax dollars to spend on affairs that they should not be concerned with instead of helping such a highly unemployed population.
ReplyDeleteIran joining this civil war can pose a huge threat to the world. As the world knows, Iran being a producer of nuclear weaponry is a very dangerous country to join this battle. I agree when you say that other countries should not have been involved, but obviously they are doing the exact opposite. Hopefully the situation in Syria will be resolved soon in order to avoid a possibility of nuclear or possibly even World War 3. There is a high chance or World War, because superpowers, such as America, Russia, and Iran are all joining this battle. Lets hope for the best.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is not Iran's problem and they should not get involved into a huge problem like this. I personally think that America should go into Syria and stop the rebels from continuing their destruction and assaulting people. I also think Iran is getting into too much for itself and should just not get involved. Hopefully, the policemen of the world, America, should just come in and take care of the Syrian crisis and put an end to all this commotion.
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ReplyDeleteSince Iran is an extremely powerful country when it comes to producing weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weaponry, it is dangerous for them to take part in this. However, it is strong enough to position itself and no country should ever take the risk to go against it. With America, Germany, and Russia joining in, the situation becomes more threatening because it creates a scene of the world's most powerful countries becoming involved in one battle. This will eventually lead to a World War 3. I agree with George about America's involvement in this because it is complete nonsense that America can solve this problem and promote world peace when it has enough weapons to wipe out the entire world itself. After the 9/11 attacks, America started spending large amounts of money on terrorists and protection or defense against them to prevent future possible attacks. Now it is quite uncertain why America would support Syria's opposition while there are huge amounts of al-Qaeda members fighting against Syria's government. The only conclusion we can make about this worldwide issue is to first provide ceasefire and then solve this in a diplomatic fashion.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is like the Big Brother to many countries, but not for Syria. I think that America should back off of Syria and let them solve their own problems, especially when other really major countries get involved like Russia and Israel. And if Syria is under Israels protection, I pray that we do not mess up and start a conflict between them.
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