Where’s the Outrage?
02.20.2008 - 12:05 PMThe Jerusalem Post reports that in “yet another verbal attack against Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Jewish state a ‘filthy bacteria’ whose sole purpose was to oppress the other nations of the region.”
“‘The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast,’ the Iranian president told supporters at a rally in southern Iran.”
The same article in the Jerusalem Post takes note of threats by an Iranian official and by the head of Hizballah in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, to destroy the state of Israel. Israel has complained to the United Nations, which is likely to do what it always does in the face of such outrages: absolutely nothing.
The silence in the face of such threats of aggression tells us a great deal about the present condition of the world community. The implications for whether Israel will be compelled to act alone in dealing with the looming Iranian menace, or whether it will find support in other quarters, are all too clear.
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February 20th, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Again here is another opening for McCain; while Obama says he wants to sit down and have a cozy chat with Ajad so he can understand where he’s coming from, McCain should say that as usual Obama has things dangerously backwards: it’s not that we don’t know the mullahs well enough, it’s that we know Tehran only too well! When the thugs are running amok, you don’t sit down with them to discuss their motivations. You put a stop to their thuggery, period. Talk is what you do with people who share a mutuality of goals and objectives. Otherwise you’re not just wasting your time; you’re giving your adversary unfettered time to commit more crimes, develop new weapons, and kill more people.
February 21st, 2008 at 10:05 AM
I notice that Israel’s Shas party is more interested in blaming homosexuals for earthquakes than in bringing down Olmert. And it’s doubtful Olmert will do anything dramatic re Iran. A-jad, meanwhile, is champing at the bit to hold Hezbollah’s coat, all the while sounding like Hitler after a bad night with irritable bowel syndrome. So this business does have its comic aspects. Unfortunately, we’ll probably have to wait for the US election. A McCain victory might yield unexpected benefits (just as Reagan’s did). I don’t want to think about the alternatives.
February 21st, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Undersea communications cables in the Persian Gulf have been cut five times in the last week. Most of them served Iran. Some nation or group seems to be probing areas where Iran’s communications and infrastructure can be disabled. A lead up to a forced regime change?
February 21st, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Oops! They weren’t all in the Persian Gulf. They were all in bodies of water that serve the Middle and Near East, though.