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Starting the show off with a heated debate between Iranican’s Zeiman and Slater Bakhtavar, the founder and president of Republican Youth of America, who are supporters the Democratic and Republican party respectively, we reviewed some news and moved into a discussion about voting.
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Slater brought up some interesting items as he was attempting to defend Bush and McCain’s record.
He stated that over 70% of Iranian-Americans voted for Bush in the last election. Where did he get that statistic from? I can understand that a big portion of Iranians in the Southern California area are Republicans, but as far as I’ve seen the great majority of Iranians in the United States have reprimanded Bush for his foreign policy BECAUSE it has strengthened the IRI.
Moreover, the argument that the Bush Administration truly believes in bringing freedom to the middle east has been proven wrong time and again. EVEN if he meant it, he was drastically incompetent in carrying that vision out.
A couple of years ago, Condeleeza Rice came to give a talk at my University, and I decided to go. I wrote down a question and was lucky enough to have it be asked: If the United States is successful in creating a democratic Iraq, and via the democratic process, the people of Iraq vote to sever all ties with the United States, how would the U.S react to such an act?
Naturally, she skirted around the question, saying ‘We must give Iraqi’s time, and be patient.’
Patient for what? For them to succumb to permanent US presence there? For them to give into realizing their dreams of a real country for and by THEIR people? If the United States TRULY wants democracy, it would allow for such an event to take place (of course taking all necessary precautions in case the state turned rouge or unstable). But not allowing for that possibility only means one thing: that US foreign policy is to dominate every inch of this world and have ultimate control over it. That is God’s job, not the US’s.
Obama’s approach, although still questionable, seems to have a better chance of realizing that perfect foreign policy: where the policy realizes that it cannot control the world nor is it in its national interest to do so. You cannot protect your own people by hurting other people.
ZEiman out!