Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agoWhat makes Iran the big bad boogeyman of the middle east? Don't the Saudi's have more power and allies? Even Saddam was afraid of them so much so he said he had WMD to thwart an Iran.message-squaremessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down12
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareWhat makes Iran the big bad boogeyman of the middle east? Don't the Saudi's have more power and allies? Even Saddam was afraid of them so much so he said he had WMD to thwart an Iran.Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squaresupersquirrel@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 day agoBecause Israel and the US for shared as well as separate reasons existentially need a villain to wage a “holy” war against. Narratives founded on conflict and exclusion must always have an enemy they can use to scare people into listening to their empty hate.
Because Israel and the US for shared as well as separate reasons existentially need a villain to wage a “holy” war against.
Narratives founded on conflict and exclusion must always have an enemy they can use to scare people into listening to their empty hate.