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Five years later, the vast reservoir of nope and trust created in Iran is running dry. The danger from Russia today is greater than in 1946. The present Iran picture is one of all-round distrust between Americans, British and Iranians. Desperately and suicidally, the Iranians are back in an old game that they cannot win-trying to play the Russians off against the Western powers. Divided and discouraged, Iran lies defenseless-and the U.S. is doing nothing to protect...
Ibsen, whose own uncompromising plays had been harshly excoriated,, wrote much of his own emotion into Dr. Stock-mann. In Stockmann's plight he saw vindicated his distrust of majorities, his feeling that the sheep can be as dangerous as the wolves. "The minority," he wrote to Critic Georg Brandes while working on An Enemy, "is always right." Like Stock-mann, Ibsen would not be silenced; like Stockmann, he accepted almost exultantly the loneliness of leadership...
...some days after the initial impact of the news, British faith in U.S. leadership was never lower, British distrust of the U.S.'s motives and methods never so strong. Resentment was nearly unanimous, and MacArthur became the whipping...
...defense of Western Europe, like a rudderless ship, was tossing about last week on mounting waves of distrust...
There are other examples, based on far less apocryphal stories, of the process doing some good. Einstein's skeptical attitude towards Newton's is one; the geometricians' distrust of Euclid is another. Bentham refused to accept the "natural laws, natural rights," theories of previous economists; Susan B. Anthony skeptically disagreed with the idea that only men could vote. None of these people claimed to be right or wrong in the absolutist sense of Father Feeney; they simply questioned the status quo. And in every case their questioning has helped mankind along. As long as man keeps on scratching his head...