In recent years, Western countries have made several foreign policy miscalculations arising from over reliance on simplistic information and rationales, leading to misunderstanding of the other side’s culture and intentions, while also misjudging the readiness of their own citizens to pay with their lives and treasure.
This results in policies that are mismatched with a nation’s ability to respond correctly to the changing environment and circumstances — requiring the active misleading of the public with false and manipulated information.
In the current nuclear crisis with Iran, the West was in danger of repeating some of the same mistakes.
“Beyond Iran’s nuclear deal,” Hossein Mousavian, Kyodo News, November 26, 2013.
