Join CAIR-NY on Saturday, May 15th at our Annual Banquet, "I AM MUSLIM, I
AM AMERICAN: Building Community, Serving Country," as we celebrate 13
years of civil rights advocacy, community organizing and media
engagement.
WHAT: CAIR-NY Annual Banquet & Fundraiser
WHO:
Featuring Dr. John Esposito, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Haroon Moghul &
Preacher Moss. Honoring Ibrahim Abdul-Matin & the New York Civic
Participation Project.
WHEN: Saturday, May 15, 2010. Doors open 6:15
pm.
WHERE: Faculty House, Columbia University (64 Morningside Drive, near the corner of 116th and Morningside Drive)
Early
Bird Registration: $65
After April 30: $75
Door Price:
$85
SUPPORT CAIR-NY! BUY YOUR TICKET TODAY! www.cair-ny.org
Today comes news that the U.S. and Russia have signed a landmark weapons control treaty, trimming down their nuclear arsenals. And rumors swirl that China will allow its currency to jump against the dollar. In both cases, that speaks to improved relations between the U.S. and the two powers who do (and can) give Iran meaningful cover at the Security Council and in international affairs more generally. Iran has put all its eggs in a confrontational basket, increasingly relying on its ability to paint itself into a pariah's corner, and seems not to realize that both China and Russia would dump Iran for a strategic benefit vis-a-vis the U.S., which is any way far more globally important and useful. Other countries might talk about Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy, but countries like Brazil and Turkey, though rising powers, aren't going to bat for Iran (and have no way to, even if they wanted to.) Iran's regime has a very distorted notion of what constitutes power, and has drastically reduced its options for maneuver. It is, since last June, just another step in the ongoing shrinking of Iran's footprint in the region (as against what Iran's influence in the region very easily - based on its population, resources, education, culture and cohesion - could be).
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