Steven P. BarrettAhmadinejad says the West is "going down" to so-called "Non-Aligned Movement" Nations
July 29th 2008 19:24
By Steven Barrett
I'd really like to forget that this fruitcake exists, or worse, even take his threats seriously, but there's also a certain truth to what he's trying to tell us unless we wake up.
Not, of course, on his terms: But on OURS'. And soon.
He doesn't want to engage in serious talks. He doesn't want to listen to any voices of sanity explaining to him and his long-bearded puppeteers what could happen to him and millions of his fellow Iranians, not to mention Muslims across the world should this get out of hand.
He'd rather talk to a bunch of rag-tag bum-along-for-the-ride nations and "non-aligned" defacto allies than to the big boys who practically bankroll his theocracy.
So now he plays Hitler, Goebbels, Castro and Kruschev rolled into one character and tells us how life's going to play out in the future.
Laugh all you want at him. Europe laughed at the little guy with the funny mustache until it found out the hard way that little men with big bombast can get out of hand, with the results being catastrophic if their bombast isn't dealt with immediately.
Laugh all you want at my sense of alarm, my "islamopobia of 'islamofacism'" -- I don't care about any laughter. But I do care for the lives and freedoms of other people to live unhindered and unhinged by (legitimate) fears of a madman in control of nuclear weaponry in a nation as large and significant as Iran -- especially when that madman is spouting messianic nonsense (much in the same way as a lot of so-called "Christian Zionists" in the thrall of people like Tim LaHaye and John Hagee. But at least they've pulled back on their rhetoric and not calling for the wholesale elmination of whole countries. They've decided to let God have the final word; and not push His hand like the Iranian fruitcake is trying to do.
In early 1940, Hitler ridiculed President Roosevelt for what people thought was an alarmist position taken by the president, then running for re-election -- and on an unpopular plank, i.e. boosting up our armed forces and willingness to defend Britain in the event of war. FDR had a better handle on this than he was given credit for. In May of that year, Hitler attacked and gobbled up all of the nations he sneeringly accused FDR of sounding alarmist about. Yet we still didn't budge and almost wipe out our own army by legislative default only a few months before Pearl Harbor the following year.
Although Japan was the attacker, FDR's better instincts knew who the real power force behind the Axis was and was determined to defeat him first. The strategy paid off handsomely.
We ignored Hitler's sneering in early 1940; we ignored bin Laden's Fatwa in 1996 (?) and we'd damned well better not fluff off this warning. This guy might not be as crazy as we think he is. Maybe we're just too crazy to think we're sane enough to keep sticking our heads in the sand hoping some day he'll just go away.
Because all it will take to topple the economy, the driving force of Western capitalism and democracy as we know it, is one small -- even a so-called "dirty bomb" or small tactical nuke hidden in a suitcase to blow up in Israel, Europe or the US. I wouldn't even put it past this man to blow up a Muslim city and cleverly get us to take the blame.
And should any of the major European countries or God forbid this nation, capitulate on this much in the same manner the Archbishop of Canterbury did about the Trinity, things will get awfully hot for awhile -- then turn awfully cold for years upon years.
I'd really like to forget that this fruitcake exists, or worse, even take his threats seriously, but there's also a certain truth to what he's trying to tell us unless we wake up.
Not, of course, on his terms: But on OURS'. And soon.
He doesn't want to engage in serious talks. He doesn't want to listen to any voices of sanity explaining to him and his long-bearded puppeteers what could happen to him and millions of his fellow Iranians, not to mention Muslims across the world should this get out of hand.
He'd rather talk to a bunch of rag-tag bum-along-for-the-ride nations and "non-aligned" defacto allies than to the big boys who practically bankroll his theocracy.
So now he plays Hitler, Goebbels, Castro and Kruschev rolled into one character and tells us how life's going to play out in the future.
Laugh all you want at him. Europe laughed at the little guy with the funny mustache until it found out the hard way that little men with big bombast can get out of hand, with the results being catastrophic if their bombast isn't dealt with immediately.
Laugh all you want at my sense of alarm, my "islamopobia of 'islamofacism'" -- I don't care about any laughter. But I do care for the lives and freedoms of other people to live unhindered and unhinged by (legitimate) fears of a madman in control of nuclear weaponry in a nation as large and significant as Iran -- especially when that madman is spouting messianic nonsense (much in the same way as a lot of so-called "Christian Zionists" in the thrall of people like Tim LaHaye and John Hagee. But at least they've pulled back on their rhetoric and not calling for the wholesale elmination of whole countries. They've decided to let God have the final word; and not push His hand like the Iranian fruitcake is trying to do.
In early 1940, Hitler ridiculed President Roosevelt for what people thought was an alarmist position taken by the president, then running for re-election -- and on an unpopular plank, i.e. boosting up our armed forces and willingness to defend Britain in the event of war. FDR had a better handle on this than he was given credit for. In May of that year, Hitler attacked and gobbled up all of the nations he sneeringly accused FDR of sounding alarmist about. Yet we still didn't budge and almost wipe out our own army by legislative default only a few months before Pearl Harbor the following year.
Although Japan was the attacker, FDR's better instincts knew who the real power force behind the Axis was and was determined to defeat him first. The strategy paid off handsomely.
We ignored Hitler's sneering in early 1940; we ignored bin Laden's Fatwa in 1996 (?) and we'd damned well better not fluff off this warning. This guy might not be as crazy as we think he is. Maybe we're just too crazy to think we're sane enough to keep sticking our heads in the sand hoping some day he'll just go away.
Because all it will take to topple the economy, the driving force of Western capitalism and democracy as we know it, is one small -- even a so-called "dirty bomb" or small tactical nuke hidden in a suitcase to blow up in Israel, Europe or the US. I wouldn't even put it past this man to blow up a Muslim city and cleverly get us to take the blame.
And should any of the major European countries or God forbid this nation, capitulate on this much in the same manner the Archbishop of Canterbury did about the Trinity, things will get awfully hot for awhile -- then turn awfully cold for years upon years.
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Comment by tlcorbin
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Comment by S.L.
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Good and timely post, Steven. Keep up the good work!
Comment by Anonymous
Wow, you must have some pretty strong cockroaches out in Nevada! My Gawd .... if Alaska has anything that voracious ... well, it does and they're called either Grizzlies or Kodiaks. Now that'd be a sight for sore eyes, inviting Ahmadinejad to an Alaska BBQ and leaving him all by himself telling him he has a most interesting dinner companion as a surprise blind date.
Then feed the left overs to the Nevada cockroaches. But even they deserve a better dinner unless you want to use him as insect repellant or rat poison.