How is this man not the 21st-century Hitler?
Ahmadinejad criticized three European states—an apparent reference to France, Britain and Germany—for seeking to deny Iran what he called its nuclear rights.
“If you insist on your path against the Iranian nation’s right, the Iranian nation will count it as enmity against the Iranian nation and the Iranian nation will reconsider its relation to you,†he said, without giving details.
“I’m telling you in plain language that as of now, if you try, whether through propaganda or international organizations, to take steps against the rights of the Iranian nation, the Iranian nation will consider it an act of hostility.â€
How is it not obvious that Iran’s goal is to become the nation that controls the Middle East?
Iran’s top national security official urged his Arab neighbors Tuesday to eject the U.S. military from American bases in the region and instead join Tehran in a regional security alliance.
Iran is the nation behind Hezbullah. Iran is funding and training terrorists who murder Americans and Iraqis in Iraq. Iran is the nation that has stated plainly its determination to wipe Israel off the map, and is the only nation in the world where Holocaust denial is not just part of its international policy, but is becoming enshrined in its permanent national message.
What are we waiting for? The invasion of Poland?
All of those ignorant lefties who call Bush Hitler are blind, deaf, and dumb (in the other sense of the word). Ahmadinejad is the Hitler wannabe, and is trying with all his might to remove the “wanna” from that word.
Spengler sees it.
Iran covets the oil reserves of southeastern Iraq, southern Azerbaijan, and northwestern Saudi Arabia. With 30% youth unemployment, 10% inflation, epidemic prostitution and drug addiction, Iran’s fraying social fabric depends on an oil-derived government dole. Within a generation it will have half as many men of military age, and four times as many pensioners. As currently configured, Iran faces economic and demographic collapse eventually. If, as Business Week reports, Iran’s oil exports are falling by one-seventh each year, the reckoning might come sooner rather than later. The theocratic regime is a wounded and dangerous beast, prone to hunt outside its own preserve.
And I have reported many times before: Holocaust survivors are scared to death. They see the exact same thing happening today that happened 70 years ago. The world is once again letting its Jew-hatred out in the open. You cannot go anywhere on the internet without seeing any discussion about Israel devolve into anti-Semitism. Every. Single. Time. And the anti-Semites protest the loudest that they have nothing against Jews. No, it’s just Zionists that they hate. Zionism—the movement to establish a national homeland for the Jews in their national homeland—is the world’s greatest evil, not the mad mullahs in Tehran about to get nuclear weapons.
There is a huge difference between the 1930s and today, however. When we said “Never again,” what we meant was: Never again will we let you murder us in the millions. Never again will we go down without fighting with every means at our disposal.
This time, the Jew-haters are going down, too.
Have you seen that ad on Google every time you do an Israeli-related search? It’s to a Foreign Affairs magazine article “A World Without Israel.” It goes something like “Imagine a world without Israel.” It’s a paid link, so I never read the article.
But I have a different side to that question: Imagine a world without Iran.
Because I think it’s a distinct possibility that if Iran gets the bomb, and launches one at Israel, we will see what the world is like without Iran.
There is definitely a worldwide resurgence of antisemitism. It is happening most noteably in the United States at our universities, as the left hitches its wagon to global jihad.
Iran is very dangerous, for the reasons cited above, and because the US will do nothing to halt Iran’s development of nuclear weapons.
It’s beginning to look as if the entire world is preparing to go to war with Israel, what with the French threatening to shoot down any Israeli surveilance plane that flies close enough to spy on Hezbollah’s troop movements.
This is what the Arabs wanted all along, you know… a replay of the Six-Day War, only with Israel prevented from striking the first blow. Without that, her destruction would have been assured in 1967, and this is how both Europe and the Middle East intend to destroy her today.
I wish there was something I could do to help, but anything other than what I’ve been doing (donating more money than is fiscally prudent) would be more a burden than a benefit.
Hitler was far more popular among Germans than the theocrats are among Iranians. I suspect that Ahmadinejad continually harps on Israel and the nuclear issue because those are the only two issues for which the mullahs enjoy much popular support.
Also, Hitler built up a huge modern army. A lot of Iran’s weaponry dates to the days of the Shah, and Iran spends less on defense than either Israel or Saudi Arabia. Hitler never made a serious peace offer to the allies, either, though the Iranians offered a serious diplomatic arrangement to America in 2003.
“Iran covets the oil reserves of southeastern Iraq, southern Azerbaijan, and northwestern Saudi Arabia.” Iran is going to invade Azerbaijan? This isn’t even serious.
A good refutaion of the idea that Iran is seriously working to become the Middle Eastern Hegemon, or that they’re hellbent on nuking Israel, is here: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/009588.php
Ahmadinejad is an incredibly nasty piece of work, but if Iran builds a nuclear bomb the main problem is that Iran could sponsor terrorist groups like Hizbullah much more aggresively. That’s a very bad thing, but not the end of the world. Israel’s existence is not at stake.
BTW, I read the Foreign Policy article “A World Without Israel”. Despite the smart-alleck title, it was a good article. The author was trying to refute the Israel-bashers who blame Israel for all the Middle East’s problems by asking what the other Middle East countries might be like today if Israel hadn’t been created and concluding that they wouldn’t be much different than they are now. (Naturally, some other experts disagreed.)
Absolutely right, Meryl.
Never again. But if again, not just us this time.
If the Israelis asked me, and there are good reasons why they don’t, I’d suggest they let the Moslem world know that if anyone launches an a-bomb at Israel, whether it lands or not, it will be a thousand years before anyone can safely visit Mecca and Qom.
On the other hand, you ask: would the Moslems accept the destruction of their most holy places if it meant killing a few million Jews? Alas, the answer isn’t obvious.
“Also, Hitler built up a huge modern army. A lot of Iran’s weaponry dates to the days of the Shah, and Iran spends less on defense than either Israel or Saudi Arabia.”
And nobody in the League of Nations suspected the extent of Hitler’s army, until he started using it. In fact, many members declared that Germany had every right to rearm itself.
Just like many UN leaders say Iran has every right to build nuclear weapons.
Iran is managing to supply modern enough weapons to destroy Israeli Merkavas and US Abrams. I think historians are going to look back on the fully equipped and modernized Iranian army, and wonder how we could have been so stupid as to ignore them, let alone supply them ourselves to “make things fair.”
It’s possible that the current attempts on the part of Iran’s leaders to look like maniacs is just a bargaining point. Even if that were true, that still doesn’t mean appeasement is such a great idea.
At best, appeasement means we let Iran turn Iraq and Lebanon into puppet states and, in return, they term limit Ahmadinejad, hand over a few token terrorists, and stop the reactors. This will produce great rejoicing because Disaster Has Been Averted.
Of course, it also means they start up the reactors again and put a new loonie in a high-profile position when Saudi Arabia finally collapses and they want a slice.
This will be followed a few years later by agreeing to stop their biowarfare research in return for a halt in oil-shale research …
Most important of all, other nations have been taking notes and are considering how to use pretended insanity as a bargaining chip.
People hear what they want to hear. Far too many people make excuses for those that hate us.
It is much easier to believe that people hate you because of something you did than because of something you are.
Ahmadinejad needs to be taken down…hard.