BBC journalist Matt Frei presents a brief but enlightening layout of the forces at work in US/Iranian relations. It’s more complicated than the election-year rhetoric would have us believe, but it’s not beyond our ability to solve, if we only will.
If I were the US government I would issue Iran with 10,000 student visas and 1,000 technology grants to Silicon Valley.
Iran boasts five million college students with higher degrees, the largest proportion in the Middle East.
Instead of encouraging them to turn into head-bashing extremists I would seduce them into becoming head-banging, iPod-wearing computer geeks.
Unfortunately none of this will ever happen.
