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Nothing is impossible!
The enmity between Iran and the U.S. runs deep, but let’s be real: the devastation America brought to Japan, Germany, and Vietnam was a thousand times worse than anything Iran has faced.
Take the Vietnam War alone:
The U.S. dropped twice as many cluster bombs as were used in all of World War II, which killed over two million people.
That war caused 19 types of cancer, skeletal and neurological damage for 4.8 million people, and birth defects in half a million children.
Yet, after 20 years of brutal fighting, something incredible happened: the war ended, and then,unbelievably,America and Vietnam made peace!
If Vietnam’s leaders were like Iran’s hardliners, they’d have gone on TV saying:
“We lost two million martyrs, millions were wounded, our cities, forests, and villages were chemically bombed by American war criminals and now some traitors want us to make peace with them?”
But as the book Nothing Is Impossible says:
The Vietnamese fought fiercely in war and embraced peace just as fiercely. Two old enemies let go of the past to build a better future for their people.
What came of that peace:
Vietnam achieved an average economic growth rate of 8%, slashed unemployment to 1.9%, and brought inflation down to 3.2%.
This stability drew global giants like Intel, Nike, General Electric, Ford, IBM, Nestlé, Honda, Samsung, and more to invest and expand there.
That’s the miracle of diplomacy.
It’s about understanding that enmity, fear, and conspiracy theories shouldn’t be tools for governance.
The big lesson here is what Henry John Temple, former UK Prime Minister, once said:
_Countries have no permanent allies.
_They have no permanent enemies either.
_What’s eternal is the interests of a nation’s people, and it’s the duty of leaders to pursue those interests. 5 replies
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