Slater Bakhtavar is president and founder of Republican Youth of America, a frequnet commentator and analyst on foreign policy issues, and an attorney working toward a post-doctoral degree in international law.
The lack of intellectual and moral clarity about global threats and how America and the freedom seeking people of the people of Iran and other mid-east nations should respond will make them incapable of acting on the crucial deeper game.
The West must pursue a more extensive campaign of funding to pro-American movements within the region and work to counter the influence the Hezbollah. If ignored, the world could be facing a region ruled by radical fundamentalists with an eye for ''Holy War'' and with the essential objective of world domination under the banner of their form of fundamentalist Islam.
The volatile political situation in Iran should alarm historical intellectuals. Less than seventy years after Hitler committed mass genocide against millions of innocent people in Nazi Germany, a new menace has emerged from the land of Ancient Persia.
The division between North America and the South America has flourished in recent years, but since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998, three-quarter of the nations in Latin America have shifted to the left. The winds of change have turned the region into a hotbed of anti-Americanism.
Slater Bakhtavar is president and founder of Republican Youth of America, a frequnet commentator and analyst on foreign policy issues, and an attorney working toward a post-doctoral degree in international law.
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