This is a response to a blog post located here. I randomly came across this article, which includes a rather bad recording of one of my teachers at SFSU this next semester.
I must say, it’s rather discouraging. The guy seems to be a rather rabidly liberal, believing that the sole reason why U.S. government was concerned about Iran’s nuclear program is so that they can invade and userp control of Iran’s oil. He also, rather pompously, brags that his conversations with his ‘contacts’ in Israel are worthey of being recorded by the FBI, and that said contracts were reporting that Israel was mobalizing it’s forces to invade Iran. He then goes on to say that this is inevitable, because without such a war Israel’s economic situation would deteriorate. Since this was recorded prior to Jan 27th, 2005, obviously not.
Wow. Where do I begin? I am by no means a supporter of Bush or his war on Iraq, but this professor is completely ignoring basic IR principles with his statements. The interview seems to be with the “voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, which (with such a title) is understandably biased against the US and Israel. But the Professor goes out of his way to promote propagandist ideas which seem to me to be just as bad as the ones promoted by Bush or Rice.
I heard that this guy was a bit off, but man, it’s going to be a long semester… Here’s a response someone else had on Rob’s Blog
Cheers for the blog. I went to SFSU and I took this guys class. It might not suprise you that this is one of his lectures. He espouses this stuff all the time, and if you disagree then you get an F…no foolin’. I took issue with a comment of his once and he stared me down in front of 35 students and a guest speaker. Cant believe he’s on international radio…..
Oh boy…