You see, telecom companies realized that a sale in Teheran was as proffitable, if not more, than a sale in Manhattan. So they started selling technology there. Lots of those states, with an economy fueled by petrodollars, paid decent postsecondary education to their students and even sent some to study abroad (when i was at UdeM, a few years ago, many Tunisians were there.) So those parents we would have seen on World Vision a few decades ago are now educated people who won’t take prefabricated answers to their questions now, not even from mullahs and not from us. Not unlike the baby boomer generation here.
Some say the help we gave them made us enemies. But is an empire (or superpower) worth preserving when it has to dumb down his “conquered provinces” in order to stay afloat?
All empires did that, but all of them were worth tearing down.
You see, telecom companies realized that a sale in Teheran was as proffitable, if not more, than a sale in Manhattan. So they started selling technology there. Lots of those states, with an economy fueled by petrodollars, paid decent postsecondary education to their students and even sent some to study abroad (when i was at UdeM, a few years ago, many Tunisians were there.) So those parents we would have seen on World Vision a few decades ago are now educated people who won’t take prefabricated answers to their questions now, not even from mullahs and not from us. Not unlike the baby boomer generation here.
Some say the help we gave them made us enemies. But is an empire (or superpower) worth preserving when it has to dumb down his “conquered provinces” in order to stay afloat?
All empires did that, but all of them were worth tearing down.