A case of mad cow disease?

British Asian blog Picked Politics always has a good perspective on global matters and its recent posting on the Iran wants to get rid of Israel recent statement is worth reading under the headline The Iranian Mad Cow Disease:

So. The Iranian president has a foot in mouth problem. Not that he sees it that way obviously, or the hardline Iranians went on a spontaneous march, North Korea stylee, straight after.

Understandably there has been a diplomatic orgy of condemnation and I will not even bother to defend him. Calling him idiotic might be too nice.

Full posting here.

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[Lior]

"Understandably there has been a diplomatic orgy of condemnation and I will not even bother to defend him." Well, thank goodness - that's saved a lot of breath.

In the late 1930s, Chamberlain appointed the somewhat anti-Semitic Lord Halifax as Foreign Secretary - in which post he was guaranteed to further the prime minister's policy of appeasement toward Hitler. Accopanying Chamberlain to Munich as a junior member of the delegation was one Anthony Eden - later prime minister during the ill-fated Suez campaign - who was persuaded by the Berlin correspondent of the Times, the equally anti-Semitic but clear-sighted Douglas Reed (whose dispatches of foreboding were by then no longer being published) that Hitler had every intention of carrying out each and every threat and promise detailed in Mein Kampf (My Struggle). Eden had copies of the relevant passages copied and put before each member of the Cabinet as they assembled. He, Douglas Reed, and Hitler were ignored - and the rest, as they say, is history. The Koran needs to be read and understood and taken at its face value - for so does the Iranian president. It is his blueprint for the future of humanity. It is his Mein Kampf.

This goes hand-in-hand with Iranian attempts to acquire a nuclear bomb. And, in part, Iranian national demographic trends have dictated this course of action on the ayatollahs and their regime. Barely a generation ago, Iran fought a long and bloody war with the tyrant Saddam Hussein. The Iranian younger generation, which represents by far the largest sector of the Iranian population, has no intention of doing the same and, under the heel of Islamic oppression would have to be armed by its government to traverse the 1,000 miles to attack Israel. Such an arming of a volatile, young population would lead inexorably to a popular Iranian revolution - a thing this regime will not risk.

The only course open is to continue oppression at home and seek the bomb. Israel would be wiped out in one strike - Iran could, theoretically, still function after three.

Idiot? No. Just the next Islamic madman the civilized world will have to deal with - provided we read the writing not only on the wall but in the Koran and take him at his word. He means it, just like Hitler did.