We’ve been hearing the enemies of America cheering our financial crisis and calling it a punishment from above (or at least, from their version of above, not mine).
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gloated recently that the United States is paying the price for exporting inflation and deficits to the rest of the world, “Now the world capacity is full and these problems have returned … And finally they are oppressors, and systems based on oppression and unrighteous positions will not endure,” he said.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also reveled in the financial crisis, expressing his hope that it marked the end of U.S. domination over the world economy. “The false bubble of money in the West has broken,” he said on state television, adding that the recent mortgage meltdown was the beginning of the end for free market capitalism.
Similarly, Iranian Guardian Council secretary and interim Friday prayer leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati professed that the U.S.’s economic crisis was “divine punishment.” He stated, “we are happy that the United States economy has come across difficulty. They are attesting unfavorable consequences of their conduct.They are experiencing divine punishment. We are happy over that. The unhappier they become, the happier we get, as they become happy as we get unhappy.” He said that Americans could expect to be “slapped in the face by Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic Revolution.”
Yeah, so how’s that “divine punishment” working out for you now, what with the price of crude oil having dropped down as low as $62 and change today? It’s holding steady around $64. What was that break-even point for Iran’s budget again? Oh, yeah. $100/bbl.
So, who’s being punished again? What’s that? I can’t hear you, crazy men.
Sucks to be you, Iran.
That’s not even to mention that Iran’s economy has been in the tank for years now, as the Ayatollahs spend the nation’s resources on their own desires: nukes, exporting revolution via terrorism, and their own pocketbooks (the Ayatollahs are notoriously corrupt).
It’s been the case for decades that when the USA sneezes economically, the rest of the world catches cold. All those who long for the hyperpower to meet its comeuppance are also longing for their own impoverishment. Be careful what you wish for guys, you might get it. It will hurt you more than it does us.
Iran has been a mess for years. Here is a statistic (or set of statistics) that is telling in more ways than one:
The CIA has a public web site, “The World Factbook”, in which it gives the vital statistics for every country in the world, including basic measures of quality of living such as life expectancy, infant mortality and literacy rate. In all three of these ares Iran is way behind not only the West Bank but Gaza (which is broken out separately) as well!!!! Yes, the poor oppressed Palestinians are in fact much better off than their Iranian pals whose government doesn’t have enough money to take care of them but plenty to develop nukes for the purpose of a second Holocaust of the Jews.