Knowing Your Audience

This is just mind-boggling. The people responsible for bringing us the news every day think we should sit down and reason with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because he wrote a letter to Bush assailing our system of government and just about everything we've ever done. Check this out from David Limbaugh:

What is most noteworthy about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rambling letter to President Bush is that certain people actually want to treat it as a good faith effort to open up a dialogue between our two nations and believe President Bush should jump at the opportunity.

The Associated Press presents it in that light and points to Ahmadinejad's desire "to build on a shared faith in God," even though the letter is a scathing indictment of the American government, which Ahmadinejad says is the object of an "ever-increasing global hatred."

Those trifles aside, the AP observes, wistfully, that "Ahmadinejad strikes the tone of a man who is troubled by a friend's actions and decides to sit down and give him a little advice." Yes, the benevolent dictator "delivered U.S. President George W. Bush a history lesson, philosophy lecture and religious sermon laced with references to Jesus Christ."

Can you believe that? These people think Bush should *listen* to this lunatic who thinks the Holocaust never happened and that Israel should be wiped off the map.

The AP and fawning liberals can swoon over Ahmadinejad's gracious history lesson to President Bush, but the main history lesson Ahmadinejad has learned is the incalculable value in turning America against itself in the war on terror. If he can present himself as a leader earnestly seeking diplomatic solutions with the United States and paint the United States as the recalcitrant, "arrogant" empire who refuses to reason, he is miles ahead.

Amen. The terrorists' best weapon in the United States is the Democratic Party. That's a sad, sad thing, and quite a reminder that we simply cannot allow these people to be in charge of our national security.

Here is the text of the letter. It is FULL of the Left's talking points. No solutions, no ideas, just put-down after put-down of the United States and her leadership, and this heathen has the nerve to invoke the name of Jesus Christ. It's enough to make your head explode...especially when you see our Left fawning over him and thinking that Bush should entertain the notion of trying to reason with this nut.

If ever you wondered if keeping Republicans in office is worth it, keep watching the Left's response to this terrorist dictator and think about whether you want them in charge of dealing with him and others like him.

JASmius adds: James Lileks has an interesting alternative translation of ol' Adolph's correspendence....