Music And Pictures
October 3, 2005 article entitled Nuclear Tunes Blast on to Iran's Airwaves :
"Nuclear science may not be considered ideal subject matter for a popular song, but the musical boffins in Iran's state media apparatus think differently.Compare the above item with An Insertion Meant for Deletion, which appeared in the October 3, 2005 edition of the Washington Post:
"In recent days, Iran's airwaves have been buzzing with two new tunes apparently designed to rally public support for the clerical regime's increasingly tense stand-off with the West over its nuclear ambitions.
"The first song is entitled 'Oriental Sun, Nuclear Science', and sung to a backdrop of military-style marching music by Ali Tafreshi. The second similarly catchy tune is 'Nuclear Know-How"'by Reza Shirazi.
"Both extol the wonders of a 'great and powerful Iran' which has destroyed 'the arrogance of the oppressors' and 'defends its independence by using science'.
"Despite the heavyweight nationalist lyricism, Iran insists its nuclear programme it strictly peaceful. But the West in unconvinced, and the European Union and United States want Iran to abandon its works on the potentially dual use nuclear fuel cycle and are threatening UN Security Council action.
"The songs, produced by Iran's state television and radio apparatus, have therefore been getting good airplay -- and are also accompanying TV clips of atomic facilities used to praise the 'young engineers who have succeeded, without the help of foreigners, to develop the Iranian nuclear programme'."
"And now, reason No. 1,446 that Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes is having a hard time working the crowd in the Muslim world.Two different governments, with differing perceptions as to what is offensive or dangerous.
"An ad listing Boeing, Bell Helicopter and other companies making the troubled Osprey CV-22 attack helicopter appeared in the National Journal last week. It shows soldiers rappelling from the chopper onto the roof of a building, which says in Arabic on the side, 'Muhammad Mosque.'
"'It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell,' the ad touts. 'The CV-22 delivers Special Forces to insertion points never thought possible.'
"Like a mosque?
"The folks at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), naturally, were furious and protested. Within hours, the companies and the National Journal responded. 'We consider the ad offensive, regret its publication and apologize to those who like us are dismayed with its contents,' Boeing said.
"The companies said they had tried to pull the ad several weeks ago. It ran, National Journal Executive Vice President Elizabeth Baker Keffer told CAIR in an e-mail, 'as the result of a clerical error on our part. We had received specific direction from the agency representing Boeing/Bell to not run the ad. We have apologized to Boeing, their partner Bell and their advertising agency [in Irving, Tex.] for this mistake. We accept full responsibility for the error.'"
Karen Hughes has her work cut out for her--as in the labors of Sisyphus.
posted by Always On Watch @ 10/06/2005 08:55:00 AM
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18 Comments:
mr. ducky,
What makes you think WE will have to invade? The real battle is only now taking shape. For once the Iraqi Shi'as over-reach becomes apparent when the new Iraqi Constitution fails, the Saudi's and other Sunni's will be forced to respond in kind. The War on Terror will then escalate as the militias engage transforming it into an almost entirely intra-Islamic affair.
And with all our new bases in Iraq, we'll be in a position to keep the oil lanes secure as we won't need to provide any ground troops, only air cover and intelligence (our specialty).
Funny isn't it, Osama and the Iraqi "insurgents" will be on our "Sunni" side this time, and the only flowers the Iraqi's will need will be for the tombs of their martyrs.
My only wish is that the Kurds get a new state out of this. Naaaahhh, Turkey will likely make their move and absorb 'em. That'll give sufficient reason for the EU to keep Turkey out for another 20 years and put a lid on Islamic emigration to Europe.
Didn't you get the Straussian brief? ;-)
-FJ
Of course, the Saudi's do have a "back-up" plan for countering Iran, but I don't think the US will concede them the option...
6/9/05 article
;-)
-FJ
So what do you think of the Rollo Rock movement mr. ducky? From the descriptions, I don't think my ears could bear to hear Ive's "Concord Symphony". But I bet I could listen to Rollo Rock.
You can't engage in a tactic during a war??? How about a strategy?
-FJ
sammy,
As for the military-industrial complex... I'm sure they would be happier designing robotic mining operations, undersea farms, archologies, and planning terra forming operations for Mars AND Venus rather than forensically tracking bomb-planters from the air and builing bunker busters.
There's a bunch more money to be made resulting in real PROFITS by doing the former. But you know those crazy capitalists. You've got a "need", they'll build you an answer. Only Caveat Emptor! They DO know how to create needs, as any advert man is well aware.
And speaking of uprightness and honesty, I understand the guys at Los Alamos National Labs learned some GREAT lessons about how the government has institutionalized lipservice to those, now stale, mentioned virtues.
-FJ
But of course you realize, Sammy, that many of those other uses for the military industrial complex have been made virtually impossible by "pirate" legislation like the International Law of the Sea (ILOS) Treaty and numerous environmental groups. Can't have anyone using the planet's resources and all! Just try getting an archology approved without an environmental impact statement.
-FJ
You know FJ, I've never quite thought of it this way... but you may be onto something.
This falls well within the "black helicopter theory" realm, but could the Iraq war be degrading into slow anarchy.... on purpose?
Could the entire goal of the "west" be much the same as the Iran/Iraq war of yore? Could the entire goal be to plunge them back into a choas against eachother, thus removing their vitrial for us?
Spooky to think that we would play nation states as mere pawns on our chess board, but it wouldnt be the first time.
And S,
which enemy? I just did a quick google on Chpt 9, and did a Cntl+F looking for the word enemy, but came up blank. That is the chapter talking about the hole in the ground that the locusts stining people with scorpion tails and all...
S,
China is bankrolling things... our debt is their gain.
The only thing I saw in your prophetic translation was the gunship being the locusts. I understand the visual reference (especially the face of a man perhaps is the pilot), but they are supposed to sting, but not kill.
G,
All I can say is that the opportunity to find a peaceful solution to the problem of Iraqi misgovernment was handed to them on a $200 billion Made in USA/GB platter and written in blood. And if they failed to do right by THAT generous offer, one can hardly blame US. And so if it FAILS, I've no problem with seeing the "problem of Islam" taking care of itself. Perhaps the Straussian's themselves predicted it... a win-win for the West, no matter WHAT happened. They're ALL hedge investors, after all.
-FJ
Duck,
They [the Iranians] don't want what we are selling. When we learn that we can adjust and make progress.
What they are selling (worldwide domination) doesn't include the survival of any other ideology. What is the "adjustment" which allows for middle ground?
As to the elections, they weren't exactly open. Lots of interference happened at the polls when the military forces sided with the radical recently installed into office.
Under the present leadership of Iran, Hughes's attempts to build bridges are doomed to failure. Those attempts will also be doomed elsewhere in the Middle East with continued rabble-rousing from either side. The songs to which I referred and the rappell-onto-the-mosque will combine and promote further division.
I've never had much hope for Hughes's efforts in the first place. Islamic nations have never been particularly open to compromise with the West. The current Iranian administration has labeled as "Westoxification" any efforts at compromise. If not developing nuclear weapons is considered compromise, then we have an impasse.
G,
Could the entire goal of the "west" be much the same as the Iran/Iraq war of yore? Could the entire goal be to plunge them back into a choas against eachother, thus removing their vitrial for us? Promote in-fighting and neutralize? Very Machiavellian.
I've heard such a hidden strategy suggested at some other sites, but I never gave it much credence.
Certainly invasion isn't the only way to deal with the threat from Iran.
Learned this, which I've paraphrased, from an Iranian whom I knew some years ago..."We resent the Saudis' holding the monopoly on holy sites. We are Persians. They are Arabs [Sneer, with an air of superiority], just one step away from barbarism. We had a civilization first." Just tossing this in for consideration--what he said didn't mean much to me at the time.
Revelation is open to many interpretations. Many historical eras have pointed to that same chapter to identify "the enemy."
So did some nut jobs such as Charles Manson, who, comparing Revelation 9 to the Beatles' White Album (which included Revolution No. 9) said that the "breastplates" were electric guitars and the "tails" were the cords for electric guitars.
I'm not saying that anyone here is wrong, just pointing out the levels of the Book of Revelation.
I'm not sure that I want to see too far into the future.
Samwich,
Yes, I believe that there will be signs of the latter days. Is that watching of signs particularly intense for Mormons? I've noted that my Mormon aunt has been educating herself about Islam since 9/11, and I believe she makes a connection even though we don't spend a lot of time talking about the differences between our two faiths. Also--and this may sound funny to you--I "respect my elders." Part of my upbringing as my father was descended from Mennonites. Some see that type of upbringing as oppressive, but I didn't find it so because I came from a loving home, the rules notwithstanding. [Am I making sense here?]
So many churches today seem willfully ignorant of the signs of the end days and of the dangers which Islamism poses; of course, there are exceptions.
Yes, we could discuss the interpretations of Revelation, but such a discussion would be very long, I think. I agree that here is not the place.
Just so you know...I used to give Revelation a lot of thought, especially when I was younger. Not so much anymore. "No one knows but the Father." So I'll just live my faith the way I believe I've been guided to do. I fully respect you as you do the same.
Shoot guys, I'm too young to have this much insight into it.
Great post, AOW! My guess is a difference is one govt realizes it can be ousted by the people so it's afraid to make waves. The other doesn't give a damn about its people and will kill them in waves if they say anything they don't like.
methinks esther is spot on!
-FJ
Lots of people interpret Revelation and do no harm. Most, in fact.
I remember when Pakistan first test detonated a nuclear device. At that time it was called the Islamic bomb. I wonder what they will call Iran's nuclear weapons?
Gindy,
Fanatics don't respond to diplomacy. Maybe Hughes is trying to reach the Islamic women, but I have my doubts on that score as well.
Do Islamists listen to infidels? I think not. To female infidels? Hardly.
What Hughes is trying to do appears logical to the Western mind, but the Islamic mind thinks differently. Arabic has no past tense as we understand the concept. Nothing is never over and done on their continuum of time--thus, the eternal feud rages on.
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