Sparta Defeats Rome with Help from the Iranian Empire; Rubio's Deliberate Blindness

Rubio says: “These days, we are too busy building downward… We have become overly preoccupied with the comfort of the weakest and are sacrificing the talents of the best.” In these remarks, one can see traces of social Darwinism, which paved the way for the rise of Nazism. Nazism greatly benefited from social Darwinism and came to believe that in human societies, only those with greater power and adaptability would survive.

Sparta's victory over Athens with the help of Iran; Rubio's willful blindness

"These days, we're too preoccupied with building downward ... we're too preoccupied with comforting the weakest and sacrificing the talents of the best," Rubio said. In these sentences, we can see the traces of social Darwinism, which provided the basis for the formation of Nazism. Nazism benefited a lot from social Darwinism and came to believe that in human societies there are communities that have more power and ability to adapt... The belief in the "survival of the fittest" among the Nazis led to war and territorial expansionism and the claim of sovereignty over other nations and races... In addition, the confrontation between the "good" and the "bad" forms the basis of the ontology of Rubio's words.

Andisheh Group: Hassan Tuan, in a note that he provided to Ambassador Arjan for publication, analyzed the speech of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Acropolis and considered it a militant ideology of "the good and the bad". He emphasizes that "the idea of ​​a single West against the East is not consistent with historical facts. An example of this is the bloody conflict between the Greek city-states. The Peloponnesian wars between Athens and Sparta and their allies lasted more than twenty years. The interesting point of the story is that the Spartans extended a helping hand to the Achaemenid king to conquer Athens. Many historians attribute the victory of Sparta to the support of the Persian Empire. Therefore, the idea of ​​a united, civilized and rational Greece against the uncivilized East is nothing more than a mirage. Marco Rubio's speech contains clear lines of colonial and European-oriented thinking. Read this note below.

The speech of the US Secretary of State in the Acropolis of Greece provoked widespread reactions in Iran. These words, which show the way the current American ruling body looks at the contemporary world, can be examined from three perspectives: historical, oriental, and ideological.

At the beginning of his speech at the Acropolis, Marco Rubio, digging into history, attacked Xerxes against Greece and implied that Iranians were uncivilized and plunderers. Mr. Wazir can be accused of being deliberately blind to historical facts.

Toraj Mariya, a prominent researcher of ancient Iran and a professor at the University of California, reminded the US Secretary of State that Xerxes' attack on the Acropolis was in response to the burning of Sardis by the Ionian Greeks. In addition, Rubio's words suffer from a kind of "essentialism".

The idea of a single West against the East is not consistent with historical facts. An example of this is the bloody conflict between the Greek city-states. The Peloponnesian wars between Athens and Sparta and their allies lasted more than twenty years. The interesting point of the story is that the Spartans extended a helping hand to the Achaemenid king to conquer Athens.

Many historians attribute the victory of Sparta to the support of the Persian Empire. Therefore, the idea of ​​a united, civilized and rational Greece against the uncivilized East is nothing more than a mirage. Marco Rubio's speech has clear streaks of colonial and European-oriented thinking.

He portrays the West as rational and creative; A rationality that others did not share: "This distinguished the West from many other cultures and civilizations in which stability and livelihood were considered the highest goals of life."

In fact, according to Rubio, non-western communities were involved in biological and animal life and had a lower position than the Greeks as the ancestors of western civilization. This European-oriented view can be seen in the one-sided reports of Western travelers in the nineteenth century.

Edward Said, a prominent thinker of Palestinian descent, tells us in his famous work "Orientalism" that Western writers deliberately described the Eastern world as backward, in order to provide the necessary intellectual fodder for colonialism.

The third source of Rubio's words is social Darwinism. He says: "These days, we are too busy building downward... we are too busy comforting the weakest and sacrificing the talents of the best."

In these sentences, we can see the traces of social Darwinism, which provided the basis for the formation of Nazism. Herbert Spencer, following the "Principle of Survival of the Fittest", said that in the course of competition among humans, those who have merit and perseverance will remain, and the weak and unworthy will perish.

Nazism benefited a lot from social Darwinism and came to believe that in human societies there remain communities that have more power and ability to adapt. Weak people perish and the strong remain. They accepted the struggle for survival as a natural principle in human life; As Hitler said in 1944: "Victory goes to the strong and the weak must accept defeat."

The belief in the "survival of the righteous" among the Nazis led to war and territorial expansionism and the claim of sovereignty over other nations and races. In addition, the opposition between the "good" and the "bad" forms the basis of the ontology of Rubio's words.

This dangerous duality forms the main basis of human conflicts today and shows the view of the current American ruling body. Extremist ideologies such as fascism, Nazism, and ISIS also followed this duality. Finally, the speech of Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, is a political statement wrapped in history and political philosophy. A statement that enmity with non-western and especially Iranian civilizations forms its main content.

By exploring between the lines of Mr. Wazir's words, we find out that his emphasis on the power and rationality of Western civilization has another procedure and that is anger. It is as if he is standing on the deck of the Titanic and watching the emergence of non-European civilizations with anger and despair. As some American intellectuals such as Joseph Nye called the 21st century the century of Asian revival.

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