Charlie Rose

ShalomFreedman  04/23/2009 04:36 AM Report

Robin Wright sounds like an apologist for Iran. She does not mention its ongoing defiance of U.N. resolutions regarding uranium enrichment, its terror- operations in the world, its fanatical revolutionary Islamic ideology, its calls for the destruction of a member state of the United Nations, Israel, its imperialistic ambitions in the Persian Gulf, its providing weapons for anti- American forces in Iraq, its fundamental opposition to basic human values. She says nothing about the irrationality of Iran which has vast petroleum resources demanding a nuclear capability. When she speaks about Iran wanting a 'win- win situation with the United States' she wholly ignores the fundamental anti- American line of the regime, the whole Death To the Big Satan mentality promoted by the present government.

Charlie Rose's relation to Iran , his fawning interview with Ahmadinejad are the low- point of his journalistic work.

Shawn87  04/21/2009 07:45 AM Report

I think people are starting to realize that Ahmadinejad actually believes the completely ridiculous and erroneous claims he has made. I have been doing a good deal of research on the guy, and it is truly scary. Here is a link to one of the pieces I have read. Take a look if your interested, it is pretty well written:

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=452&PID=2280

tartufe  04/14/2009 10:22 PM Report

It's blatantly obvious. Preemptive nuking of Iran and N. Korea is imperative and the sooner the better. Any FOOL should be able to see this. Damned milquetoast liberals will doom us to a fiery perdition. May they rot in the hell they fatuously think they are avoiding - all the while paving the way.

pishro  04/14/2009 06:01 PM Report

To ignore interfering in history and shaping of the future of any country is ignorant in itself. The postings here in this page shows how far America and Americans are from realizing their true place in the international community and their responsibilities as the member of that community. Yes, if America wants to achieve its imperial goals all over this planet, it needs to respect other nations wills and their sovereignty, otherwise it will only get back what it sow: bullying and dis respectfulness.Iran and its ruling government may be the only country that has the audacity to deal with America and Israel the way they deal with the rest of the world: unjust and imperial. I will see no reason why they should change their course as long as we are giving them only the lip service, after all they are a very old culture and have been around much longer than the other us!

DavLev  04/13/2009 04:53 PM Report

Over and over and over again, the Iranian officials have refused to meet with our (US) representatives UNLESS, these pre-conditons are met: l. the US abandon Israel 2. the US vacate Afghanistan and Iraq 3. the US stop insisting on Iran's sovereign right to enrich uranium. 4. the US apologize for it's Iranian foreign policy since prior to the Shah. The US naive, gullibe and wishful thinking leftist journalists, including Charlie Rose, have continually pushed for engagement, talk, and diplomacy to resolve our (the US, the West) disputes with Iran. Charlie Rose keeps saying that Israel's Rabin's attitude was, you talk to your enemies, not with your friends. He has said this dozens of times..to those interviewed. His objective is obvious..this is the CR foreign policy. Yet, Iran continues to VIOLATE 3 UNSC resolutions forbidding this enrichment, which will (not may) lead to atomic bombs (the exact time is disputed). Robin understands all of the above, yet was ambivalent..wishy washy in her responses. I recall when reading the LA Times,,her articles..also neutral, straddling the fence about these conflicts. IF Iran threatened the US, the way No. Korea is threatening Hawaii and our West Coast..would we be so tolerant of the mullahs and Ahmad. I ask, what are we waiting for to take our (minimally) their 3 illegal nuke sites, with our B1s,B2s, cruise type missiles, bunker busters? We also have those Daisie Cutters? A combined US-Israel-West coaltion can send a message to Iran..that they will understand. These sanctions are producing nothing. It's time for Charlie, Baker, Friedman and Robin Wright to support protecting our interests..not those of the Islamo-fascists, like those in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and those who help, like No. Korea. Rose is wrong..about one things...the world is full of conflicts..(see Africa, the Balkins, India-Pakistan-Kashmir, Russia and it's former satellites. Lets not limit the planet's conflicts to that "arch" of Islamic

countries and Israel. This is lulling US into a disaster.

dmehrtash  04/13/2009 04:33 PM Report

The issues of Iran and US and Europe is not just the 1953 Coup. The coup was an important turning point in Iran-US relations. Prior to this event, and the post World War reconstruction efforts in Europe, US was viewed as alternative to the British colonizations. The coup put an end to that.

After the coup there is of course the brutal Shah's regime and US support for it. But more importantly, international organizations/legal system were of no help to Iranian when after the coup there was a US-British agreements on dividing of Iranian oil.

After the revolution, there is also the fact that US/Europeans companies sold massive amounts of Weapons of mass destruction to Saddam. US/Europe not only supported Saddam politically it also approve of Saddam use of WMD against Iranians. None of the international organization ever made any move to formally condemn Saddam's use of chemical and biological weapons.

Since end of the war with Saddam, the same countries that were supporter of Saddam have turned into imposing sanctions on Iran.

As first step, IMHO, the world needs to end its sanctions against Iran. This would be the only way to show that there is a real change in US/Europeans policies against Iranians.

REMant  04/13/2009 02:10 PM Report

The idea of getting Iran to stop their nuclear drive aims in the wrong direction, and Clinton is likely going to prove the wrong person to be dealing with them. Nor should we be trading debating points, but attempting to mend our fences, not poke more holes in them, because this is an instance where good fences make good neighbors. But that requires an understanding, of which, so far, I have seen no sign, tho Wright clearly understands the point about dignity, and the Shiite-Sunni tension. In addition, we continue to support and coddle Israel, a country that has threatened them. I would like to believe the admin really wants to turn this page, but I'll believe it when I see it, and that seems to be the Iranian attitude, as well. The 1953 coup was indeed a deplorable incident, for which, tho not primarily responsible, we ought apologize, if we haven't already, and the US should swear off following such British advice in the future.

magnacz  04/11/2009 09:02 AM Report

They are still whining about the 26 years of brutality under the Shah, which put Iran on the map of a modern world. How about taking responsibility for the 30 years of clerical misuse of power that put Iran back into the middle ages. In spite of sounding left wing sympathies large number of Iranians came to the US with the money they managed to steal during the rain of the hated Shah. Non went to Moscow. Please stay "arrogant" and fair minded in your interviews. It attracts the most interesting guests on television.

Christopher  04/11/2009 04:30 AM Report

I am dismayed by Iran's ruling class. I think the religious leaders will not allow a real reform candidate to run. It is a bit of a fake democracy, with a religious orthodoxy at the highest level. I am not hopeful about Iran.

shelgr3  04/11/2009 01:56 AM Report

I'm astonished that you suggested--with exasperation, no less!--that Iranians are somehow misguided to care about a crucial incident in their history that happened only 56 years ago, namely, the CIA-sponsored coup in 1953 that overthrew their democratically elected government & re-installed the Shah, a U.S.-puppet dictator whose brutal oppression sparked the revolution of 1979.

Your arrogance is legendary, but are you really so arrogant as to suggest that, because Americans are ignorant of the vicious role that our government played in recent (Cold War-era) Iranian history, the Iranians should be ignorant of it as well? Do you really believe that the collective memory of a nation--any nation--should be forgotten with each new generation? Do you have no respect for history at all?

If not, perhaps this explains your curiously egocentric view of the world.