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熊淑麗‧美伊死結能解嗎？
2009-03-11 20:15
美國總統奧巴馬將訪問的第一個回教國家，不是之前大家以為的印尼，而是土耳其。
雖然印尼要失望了，但看土耳其的特殊地位：是一個世俗回教國家，橫跨歐亞，也是北約成員國，正爭取加入歐盟，就不難看出奧巴馬棄他曾度過童年的印尼而選擇土耳其為首個走訪的回教國家的考量了。
希拉里在宣佈奧巴馬將訪問土耳其時，也明講了美國希望借助土耳其，在伊朗問題上著力，而土耳其也明快地表示願意充當美國和伊朗的中間人。
奧巴馬上任後頻向伊朗示好，並且不排除與伊朗直接對話，但伊朗至今對美國的示意仍然冷淡。其中最重要的關鍵，是美國與以色列的關係，讓伊朗有戒心。
土耳其所處的戰略位置，早讓美國重視其重要性，之前攻打伊拉克時也借助土耳其，而土耳其不僅與伊朗關係不錯，與以色列也維持良好關係，甚至也曾促成以色列和敘利亞之間進行過非直接對話。美國現在要借助土耳其作為回教與基督教之間的溝通橋樑，為美國與伊朗“牽線搭橋”。
土耳其總理埃爾多安曾有一次無意中透露，在布什主政時，伊朗總統內賈德曾託他向布什帶話，稱有意化解美伊之間的“仇恨”，但當時布什對伊朗心存猜忌，因此沒有進一步的動作。現在，情勢不同了，美國跟伊朗之間就正等待一個“搭橋人”。
美國先“求助”俄羅斯，現又寄望土耳其，可見奧巴馬政府多麼希望能打開伊朗這個死結，以為他的中東佈局跨出一大步。美國和伊朗能不能走向大和解，將關係中東的命運。
星洲日報／國際漫步‧作者：熊淑麗‧2009.03.11
america’s plans for the middle east is 40 years of oil reserves in iraq.
we are leaving 50 thousand troops there to protect our oil which we have paid dearly for in treasure.
few will undersand my words very few.
if mc cain has won president he would have went after the iran oil.
obama is not so greedy. without cheap and available oil we in america become a third rate country.
iraq now becomes a colony of the united states. we have 700 bases around the world we are not about to leave iraq to iran. there are over 60 bases being planned for iraq.
we dont keep all those iraqi gov officials in the protected green zone for nothing. we pay them well to sell out their countries resources to the highest bidder.
It also turns out that the Pentagon now has a plan that may involve using one of Iran’s ports as a secure supply route for Afghanistan!
Hahahaha! I cannot wait to see how they are going to sell that to the American public after demonizing Iran for 8 years!!! (or more depending how you look at what we have done to them for 50 years)
Yep, turns out the Taliban has been very successful at disrupting the current supply route and the alternative route they were counting on (one of the “stans” has just said “Heck no!” to a proposed base. I guess they value their Russian relationship over ours.
I wonder how the Khyber Pass problems are affecting the pipelines that we “paid” so dearly for in Afghanistan?
PS This whole “empire” thing does not seem to be going so well at the moment. I do find it a lot more interesting than all of the crappy TV shows.
afgan will be obama’s vietnam.
the afgan’s have the mountains and safe havens to protect them like the vietnamese had the jungles.
they sent the russians packing and will send us packing.
but not until we spend a trillion dollars there.
europe is beginning to see a no win situation there.
it will take americans much longer to see. ie dont want another vietnam like loss. ego thing.
we americans did not learn from vietnam maybe we will learn from afgan. dont count on it look how long it took europe to learn.