U.S. Shifts Iran Focus to Support Opposition - WSJ.com

It’s about time! Obama should support the opposition not because his nuclear negotiations with the regime have utterly failed, but because it’s the right thing to do. America is a country that should support any group that is seeking their god given rights and freedoms.

In today’s NY Times, David Brooks writes about the movie Avatar in his column, THE MESSIAH COMPLEX. He concludes with the following:

Still, would it be totally annoying to point out that the whole
White Messiah fable, especially as Cameron applies it, is kind of
offensive?

It’s just escapism, obviously, but benevolent romanticism can
be just as condesending as the malevolent kind–even when
you surround it with pop-up ferns and floating mountains.

It rests on the stereotype that white people are rationalist
and technocratic while colonial victims are spirtual and athletic.
It rests on the assumption that nonwhites need the White
Messiah to lead their crusades, It rests on the assumption
illiteracy is the path to grace. It also creates a sort of two- edged cultural imperialism. Natives can either have their…

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