thedrifter
12-13-06, 06:41 AM
Shocked? Awed? We knew he was a wacko
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
So Tony Blair is shocked at what's happening in Tehran. Why? The only shock is that he or anybody else with eyes and ears would be shocked at anything the nut job Iranian leader does.
For the better part of two years, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has talked glowingly about the Islamic version of Armageddon and threatened to wipe Israel off the map. That he now gathers a bunch of unemployed cretins from around the globe who compete to "prove" the Holocaust is a myth is the least of our worries.
It's the future, not the past, that should scare us. For if the messianic Ahmadinejad succeeds in getting his hands on The Bomb, he will be the ultimate kook with nukes. And nobody anywhere will be safe.
The Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians and most Arab Muslims know as much, which is why they don't want to see Iraq collapse and Iran grow stronger.
The Israelis certainly know it, which is why I suspect Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's "slip" in mentioning Israeli nukes wasn't a slip at all. Who wouldn't be tempted to remind Ahmadinejad that he could pay a terrible price if he so much as aims a missile at Tel Aviv?
Most experts on the Mideast have been saying all along that the biggest mistake President Bush made was in failing to realize that Iran, and not Iraq, was the root of all evil. It was in Iran, after all, where the modern movement of Islamic fanatics started in 1979 with the takeover of our embassy. The fruit of that poisoned tree include the horrors of suicide bombing that started with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group operating in Lebanon that killed 241 of our Marines in 1983.
This sick "culture of martyrdom" that has become a staple of both Sunni and Shiite groups in numerous countries traces back to the approval by Iranian clerics of these inhuman acts. Even today, Iranian television and much of its print media spew anti-American and anti-Semitic propaganda on a daily basis. Over there, we are still the "Great Satan" and worthy only of death.
Such facts are not incidental to our next move in Iraq. To be precise, the proposal of the Iraq Study Group that the U.S. try to get Iran's help in Iraq suddenly looks extra ridiculous. While it's true that talking can't usually hurt, the idea that anything will come of it borders on the preposterous. And so does the wish behind the idea - that Iran doesn't want to see Iraq collapse any more than we do and will therefore pitch in. Huh? Iranians are behind much of the trouble in Iraq. They don't want to solve it, at least not until we pull out.
So at least we have the benefit of moral clarity. And maybe that's the silver lining in Ahmadinejad's grisly confab. Now that we can see the future, we no longer need to stumble into it blindly.
Ellie
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
So Tony Blair is shocked at what's happening in Tehran. Why? The only shock is that he or anybody else with eyes and ears would be shocked at anything the nut job Iranian leader does.
For the better part of two years, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has talked glowingly about the Islamic version of Armageddon and threatened to wipe Israel off the map. That he now gathers a bunch of unemployed cretins from around the globe who compete to "prove" the Holocaust is a myth is the least of our worries.
It's the future, not the past, that should scare us. For if the messianic Ahmadinejad succeeds in getting his hands on The Bomb, he will be the ultimate kook with nukes. And nobody anywhere will be safe.
The Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians and most Arab Muslims know as much, which is why they don't want to see Iraq collapse and Iran grow stronger.
The Israelis certainly know it, which is why I suspect Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's "slip" in mentioning Israeli nukes wasn't a slip at all. Who wouldn't be tempted to remind Ahmadinejad that he could pay a terrible price if he so much as aims a missile at Tel Aviv?
Most experts on the Mideast have been saying all along that the biggest mistake President Bush made was in failing to realize that Iran, and not Iraq, was the root of all evil. It was in Iran, after all, where the modern movement of Islamic fanatics started in 1979 with the takeover of our embassy. The fruit of that poisoned tree include the horrors of suicide bombing that started with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group operating in Lebanon that killed 241 of our Marines in 1983.
This sick "culture of martyrdom" that has become a staple of both Sunni and Shiite groups in numerous countries traces back to the approval by Iranian clerics of these inhuman acts. Even today, Iranian television and much of its print media spew anti-American and anti-Semitic propaganda on a daily basis. Over there, we are still the "Great Satan" and worthy only of death.
Such facts are not incidental to our next move in Iraq. To be precise, the proposal of the Iraq Study Group that the U.S. try to get Iran's help in Iraq suddenly looks extra ridiculous. While it's true that talking can't usually hurt, the idea that anything will come of it borders on the preposterous. And so does the wish behind the idea - that Iran doesn't want to see Iraq collapse any more than we do and will therefore pitch in. Huh? Iranians are behind much of the trouble in Iraq. They don't want to solve it, at least not until we pull out.
So at least we have the benefit of moral clarity. And maybe that's the silver lining in Ahmadinejad's grisly confab. Now that we can see the future, we no longer need to stumble into it blindly.
Ellie