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"The U.S. does not have the stomach for a long conflict and will soon revert to its traditional policy of 'running away,' leaving Afghanistan and Iraq, indeed the whole of the Middle East, to be reshaped by Iran and its regional allies."
According to Iranian-born journalist Amir Taheri, writing in The Wall Street Journal (March 29), this is the constant theme of Hassan Abbasi, "the principal foreign policy voice in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new radical administration" in Iran.
Summing up the view from Tehran, Mr. Taheri states: "Mr. Ahmadinejad believes that the world is heading for a clash of civilizations with the Middle East as the main battlefield. In that clash Iran will lead the Muslim world against the 'Crusader-Zionist camp' led by America."
America is the greatest military power of our age. To many, America seems invincible and has been since World War II. But an increasing number of countries perceive America in quite a different light. Attitudes toward the United States have changed, particularly in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The success of the terrorists that day has emboldened Islamic terrorists around the world who now see the United States as vulnerable.
They are encouraged by the defeat of the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s when the fundamentalist Taliban drove out a world superpower. The Soviet Union collapsed soon afterwards. Now Islamic terrorists see their opportunity to also bring down the world's remaining superpower, the United States. In the minds of many, only U.S. President George Bush stands in their way.
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