Brian Williams on being a revolutionary
Posted by Moonage on 05 Jul 2005 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe
The ethical and political differences between what the American Revolutionaries hoped to accomplish and what the 1979 Iran Hostage Takers hoped to accomplish are so profoundly different that I have to believe Williams just said that for effect. They may have both been "revolutionaries", but the US version attacked the very government that was repressing them. The Iranian version attacked a bunch of defenseless employees of a diplomatic embassy that had no bearing at all on the current government. The US version acheived very specific military goals by doing what they did. The Iranian version acheived no military goals nor did they have any logical military goal in mind. They were just mad at the US and that was how they showed it. The evidence was keeping the hostages for over a year and then releasing them with no strings attached or goals acheived. The net result for the US revolutionaries was acheiving and new country. The net result for the Iranians was no new government or country, The Shah had already been ousted.
For Williams to not be aware of the profound differences is very disappointing. He’s either ignorant, stupid, or just going for shock and awe. I’m giving him the benefit of the latter.
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