Thoughts on Ahmadinejad

NYC-(Fox) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday questioned why Iran can’t have a nuclear program when the United States has one, repeated his inference that historical accounts of the Holocaust are myths, and denied that there are homosexuals in Iran.In

An interesting article from Roger Kimball, today, in the New Criterion.

Here’s the take-away:

Here’s Bagehot from Chapter 2 of Physics and Politics, “The Use of Conflict”:

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a

From Little Green Footballs:

Sick, sick, sick. Before leaving Iran today, thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the American people want to hear different views about the world.

You know — antisemitic, Holocaust-denying, Islamic supremacist views. And sadly, he’s not wrong;

Am I the only one embarrassed by the dingbat brouhaha over Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s attempt to visit Ground Zero to lay a wreath?

No, Josh Marshall, the sad part is, I expect you’re not.

So what’s the problem exactly?

Action Alert – Please Read and Re-Post

Prompted by the following action alert from GDG contributor Kenneth Timmerman, I discovered that Iranian president Ahmadinejad still plans to visit ‘ground zero’, despite the NYPD’s refusal to allow it for “security

A rather startling comment from Jawa Report, this morning:

We won the war, so Iraqis have finally come to believe. Only on the streets of Europe and America is there really a question over “if” we can win.

Again:

Michelle Malkin suggests giving Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a real New Yawk welcome.  Michelle asks is it “Time to organize an Ahmadinejad welcoming party?” For her part, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, is organizing the party.

A truely appropriate

The Jerusalem Post–

 Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian

A Marine Corps officer has reccomended dropping all charges iin another Marine slandered by Okinawa Jack Murtha.  Josh White
Washington Post:

An investigating officer has recommended that a Marine Corps general drop all charges against a Marine accused

Would the election of democrat, Mrs. Clinton, Barack Obama or John Edwards, mean the destruction of the State of Israel?  Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, seems to making that suggestion.

It follows that if Iran is hell bent on acquiring nuclear

Dudi Cohen repots, with an apparent straight face, that, “Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for spying:” 

Iranian intelligence operatives recently detained over a dozen squirrels found within the nation’s borders, claiming the rodents were serving as spies for Western

Boortz this morning:

Western intelligence is confirming it … the mullahs of Iran are, indeed, linked to al Queda. Iran is being used as a base for terrorists. These terrorists then go into Iraq and kill Iraqis and Americans,

Michelle Malkin:

There’s rioting over gas rationing in Iran. Bloggers covering the turmoil here , here, and here. Iran is blaming-who else?-the U.S. for the unrest.

Of course.  After all, when you limit yourself to the luxuries available

While the Iranians were able to kidnap fifteen British sailors and Marines, the Iranians earlier had been unable to capture Austrialiian sailors.  The BBC:

Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but

TEHRAN, Iran —AP- A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook Iran’s central desert on Monday, residents and state television said.

The quake was felt in the capital, Tehran and in several other cities for about seven seconds starting at nearly 6 p.m. local