Jahangir Golestan-Parast screens Bam 6.6 at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. feb 23rd, 2010

Jahangir Golestan-Parast screens Bam 6.6 at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. feb 23rd, 2010
by Brian Appleton
02-Mar-2010
 

It was a wonderful opportunity to show our young servicemen and servicewomen, the human side of Iran with Jahangir's inspiring and award winning film and the message that working together we can cut across national boundaries and ethnic barriers to discover our common humanity.

At a time when our government deems Iran the enemy and three US aircraft carriers and their supporting vessals are positioned in the Gulf, it is critical that we recognize our common humanity and that diplomacy has a chance to succeed where wars fail.

When a person signs up for military duty they more or less relinquish the right to question authority and therefore it becomes incumbent upon us civilians to pressure our elected leadership for better foreign policies and to keep our young military personnel out of unnecessary harms way.

The cadets were very appreciative of our insights about Iran. They had studied about Iran under the tutelage of Ambassador Limbert who had been their history professor at Annapolis prior to his reappointment to the State Department. He reminded them of the last question he had asked them on their final exam which was:"Can you think of any reason why Iran and America shouldn't be friends?"

 

 

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Ref Fred

by Brian Appleton on Thu Mar 04, 2010 01:30 AM PST

Gulf or Persian Gulf? Like States or United States...not really worth arguing about really? Don't be naive Fred, 1.2 million Iraqi deaths so far in this war of US conquest which was only intended to remove one man Saddam and another 1.3 million Iraqi refugees in Syria to escape the fighting...at what cost to poor Syria? Lots and lots of civilian casualties in Afghanistan all along since Oct 8, 2001 and a deliberate media black out about it...what makes you think an invasion of Iran to take out the IRI wouldn't kill thousands of Iranian civilians...what is it about Americans which makes them indifferent to the suffering and death they inflict upon third world nations as if it is all a computer game with Star Wars digital appeal with impersonal high altitude bombing and unmanned drones...nothing personal as we kill you, just business...to understand history, follow the money...I am reminded of Mussolini's son who was a bomber pilot admiring the bomb bursts opening up like "flowers" as he bombed Ethiopians with little more than spears...Haile Salassi appealed to the UN for help and the whole world turned a deaf ear on him...

How is it that when a natural disaster occurs, the whole world rushes to help like in Bam but when it comes to war, millions of people can be killed and no one cares? Wars started by politicians... we go about our daily lives paying the price of two unecessary opportunitic wars and don't even protest it...the majority don't even think about it and the few who protest them are considered leftists and lunatic fringe...we are brain washed, sleep walking through life...like ostriches with our heads in the sand waiting for another 9/11. It is the vast unequal distribution of wealth and the disparity between the rich and the poor which causes political instability and a constituency for terrorism and no "War on Terrorism" can be won until extreme poverty is alleviated....as long as there are people in this world who have nothing left to lose there will be extremism and suicide bombers...

 

 

Brian H. Appleton

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Anonymouse

I've seen this movie & it is very moving Hard 2 watch sometimes

by Anonymouse on Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:59 AM PST

Everything is sacred.


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Fred

2 in 1

by Fred on Tue Mar 02, 2010 05:28 AM PST

You say:

“At a time when our government deems Iran the enemy and three US aircraft carriers and their supporting vessals [sic] are positioned in the Gulf, it is critical that we recognize our common humanity and that diplomacy has a chance to succeed where wars fail.”  

For an Iranian lover you have two glaring mistakes in one paragraph.

1- There is no body of water as “Gulf”, only the illiterates or politically motivated Anti-Iran call the ancient Persian Gulf as “Gulf”.

2- The U.S. government is not Anti-Iran as you proclaim it to be, that is the CASMII lobby line. The animosity is with the Islamist Rapist Republic which has as much to do with Iran as your “Gulf” has to do with the Persian Gulf.


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