mercedo's Journal: America would not attack Iran

Iran is needless to say former Persia. There are three reasons why America won't attack Iran.

The first. -Iranians are not Arabian descents. They are one of Indo-European Peoples. I mean they are racially more close to Europeans. They are not Semites.

The second. -They liberated Jews under Babylonian Capture and allowed them to go back to Jerusalem and again allowed to build a palace once burned by the fire of Nebkadenezaar, King of Babylonia, at the downfall of the Holy Land.

So Jews were very appreciated that. And still I believe Jewish people would never forget favours once gotten by Persian King Cyrus (Founder of Persian Empire which defeated Babylonia).

The third one... Read the Book of Ester( Old Testament). Jewish people were never treated badly in Persia. Certainly they were about to be treated badly but thanks to Mordekai and Ester, Jewish people were well off. ( Later Ester became Queen of Persian King.)

Jewish people have historically long been conflicting with Arabians( especially Syrians, not with Egyptians) and Palestinians( they came from islands in the Mediterranean Sea.) But not with any people from Persia. If America is a strong ally of Israel, they would not attack Iran and Islaelites would not encourage Americans to do so.

you give them too much credit

[freejung]

I think you are assuming that Americans know a lot more about history than most of them do. I think the leaders know this, of course, but it will not stop them if they want to attack Iran. Bush has called Iran part of the "axis of evil." And if they decide to do it, I don't think the American people will have much sympathy just because Iran used to be called Persia and did good things for the Jews in the past. I think they will forget these things, and attack anyway, if the leaders tell them to.

Re:you give them too much credit

[mercedo]

Certainly if we thought too much on influence of Jewish people in the process of US government policy decision making, we might loose sight of what US government intend to do next.

Historically speaking, Alexander the Great invaded Persia by crossing Granicos River. But it was a reprisal of Persian War...

At the age of Bush Doctrine- pre-emptive war is possible, certainly everything's possible.

On this, I am not sure. In general impression so far, I don't think Iran would be the next target. We can't find