(Yokohama Port on the Tokyo Bay, 150 years ago, several years ago, and yesterday on my desk just wiped off with an alcohol-wet Kleenex-type sheet)Trojan Horses in the Middle East
Somebody said to Mr. George Stephanopoulos that it is a Trojan horse in a debate concerning private sector health insurance and public sector medicare in an ABC program broadcast in Japan via an NHK's satellite channel yesterday or so.
Then, President Mr. Barack Obama picked up the phrase "a Trojan horse."
But today, I have to watch a discussion session broadcast from the national Diet in Tokyo to be held soon between Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso and next-prime-minister hopeful Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.
In case, I think President Mr. Obama can transfer Mrs. Hilary Clinton from the State Department to the Department of Health and Human Services as a kind of Trojan horse, since I cannot believe that there aren't any enemy to the poor and sick in HHS.
SECTION I: IRAN
Ancient Greece and ancient Iran had fought great wars several times until Alexander the Great put an end to this historical inevitability.
If Alexander the Great had been defeated by the ancient Iranian Empire 2300 years ago, there would not have been the Greco-Roman Civilization and the Roman Empire in which Jesus Christ was born.
Accordingly, there could not be today's European Civilization.
Iranians are, however, Indo-European which ancient Sumerians, Hebrews, Israelites, and Indigenous Judaists cannot be.
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Why Arab leaders worry about Iran's nuclear program
By Tariq Khaitous | 23 May 2008
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More largely, Iran's suspicious activities have stimulated increasing Arab interest in nuclear energy. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates have already sought nuclear partnerships with the United States, Russia, and France to acquire nuclear technology. Since all of the Arab countries belong to the IAEA and NPT, the acquisition of nuclear energy is their "undeniable right." But it's possible this interest in nuclear power could lead to nuclear weapons. As Jordan's King Abdullah told Haaretz in January 2007, "The rules have changed on the nuclear subject. . . . Everybody's going for nuclear programs. . . . What we don't want is an arms race to come out of this...
What Riyadh and the other Arab nations fail to realize is that they can't ignore Iran's place in the Middle East. Therefore, their concerns about the Iranian nuclear program should serve as the organizing factor around establishing a new relationship with Tehran based on confidence and mutual respect. To start the process, Iran should renounce its interest in exporting the Islamic Revolution and its support for Islamic militants. For their part, the Arab countries should find ways to diminish their political and military dependence on the United States, while also pursuing political, economic, and social reforms. The result would be a much more secure Middle East.
http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/why-arab-leaders-worry-about-irans-nuclear-program
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Yet it is Dubai that has seriously stimulated increasing interest of Tehran people in economic freedom and material prosperity.
On the other hand, what has significantly influenced political leaders of Iran is the wars going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Anyway, one of the three mysteries in the Middle East is why Iran could not be another Japan.
The other two are why Egypt and Turkey could not be, respectively, though they are not like India or China, in terms of scale and history.
SECTION II: IRAN (2)
Why does incumbent President of Iran dress like Mr. Kim Jon-il of North Korea, putting on a worker's jacket?
(To be continued...)
(Curry et riz est liée à Yokosuka, le port maritime, près de Tokyo, plutôt que de Yokohama, as former Prime Minister Mr. Junichiro Koizumi advertised. But why French curry noodle, my dear, on my business desk? Since the mouse is made in China?
http://www.just-oldies.com/1956/in_the_still_of_the_night.htm )
Joh 6:16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
Joh 6:17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
Joh 6:18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
Joh 6:19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
Joh 6:20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.