Thursday, June 25, 2009

Good Article on Context for Iran Election

By Jim Miles at Znet.org: "Long on Rhetoric, Short on Memory."

There is a combination of selective memory and selective interpretation of events when the U.S. looks at its own history. Either through media manipulation, or through the rhetoric of ‘exceptionalism', the western view of Iran lacks perspective on both the history of the United States, that of Iran, and of the interactions between the two.

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