Iran's Halloween
They call it "Quds Day," celebrated on the last Friday of Ramadan. It was instituted by the Ayahtollah Khomeini as a holiday celebrating unbridled hate of Khomeini's designated "satans," Israel and America.
This year's was the most raucous yet, and included some interesting guests - not that you would know this if you're still enough of a dinosaur to get your news from the Enemy Media:
Wasn't Khatemi the same "moderate" fellow for whom the Bush Administration rolled out the red carpet last month in the hopes of cultivating him as a "back channel" for still more futile, time-wasting negotiations aimed at "persuading" the mullahs to abandon their nuclear ambitions? Doesn't this give the lie once again to the Kremlinesque fantasy that there are "moderates" and "hardliners" in the mullahgarchic hierarchy that can be "played against each other" to our benefit? Will anybody at Foggy Bottom finally start paying attention and learn this lesson once and for all? Have you caught on yet that these are all rhetorical questions?
I recall right after the 9/11 attacks when Pat Robertson (or maybe it was Jerry Falwell, I forget which) suggested that al Qaeda might be an instrument of divine judgment against America for its tolerance and even celebration of homosexuality, and other assorted fragments of cultural rot and moral decay. While the suggestion was, and is, certainly debatable, and the timing of the comment of questionable taste at best, the firestorm of outrage from the left (which claims a monopoly on moral virtue) was deafening and out of all proportion to the provocation and the public stature of the source.
Yet here we have not just Islamic religious leaders, but the theocratic government of a Middle East regional power that openly seeks nuclear weapons and the long-range missiles to deliver them on their declared enemies leading a psychotic public orgy of rabid demands for the mass extinction of two entire nations, and it attracts nary a peep from that every same Enemy Media?
That is, of course, another rhetorical question. Besides, the celebrants were burning American flags and effigies of President Bush. The denizens of most newsrooms probably glommed those images for their computer wallpaper.
At least Hitler didn't tout Mein Kampf on his rise to power, first in Germany and then Europe. So dhimmized have we become that the mullahs believe discretion to be irrelevant, even as they continue to BS us in these interminable "negotiations." And will continue to do so until either we put a stop to their nuclear ambitions for them, or said ambitions are realized with a flash and a roar.
A generation of "tricks" is more than enough. It's long past time for some "treats" of our own.
This year's was the most raucous yet, and included some interesting guests - not that you would know this if you're still enough of a dinosaur to get your news from the Enemy Media:
It is disturbing when the entire leadership of one nation, along with hundreds of thousands of its citizens, comes out with celebrations and parades every year that call for the annihilation of another country.
It is more twisted that no world leaders or international bodies, including the United Nations, have denounced the activities surrounding Quds Day, an Iranian holiday introduced by Ayatollah Khomeini that is marked on the last Friday of Ramadan. ...
President Ahmadinejad gave a series of speeches leading up to and on Quds Day. At an Iftar address on October 14, he discussed his "connection with God" and said: "The President of America is like us. That is, he too is inspired ... but [his] inspiration is of the satanic kind. Satan gives inspiration to the President of America."
Mr. Ahmadinejad delivered his Quds Day speech under a banner that read, "Israel must be wiped off the face of the world." He described the holiday as "a day for confrontation between the Islamic faith with the global arrogance." ...
A who's who of the Iranian leadership marched in the main Quds Day parade before crowds chanting "death to Israel" and "death to America." The marchers included a former Iranian president, Mohammed Khatemi, and a spokesman for the parliament presidency board, Mohsen Kouhkan, who predicted a quick "final and total defeat of America and the Zionist regime." [emphasis added]
Wasn't Khatemi the same "moderate" fellow for whom the Bush Administration rolled out the red carpet last month in the hopes of cultivating him as a "back channel" for still more futile, time-wasting negotiations aimed at "persuading" the mullahs to abandon their nuclear ambitions? Doesn't this give the lie once again to the Kremlinesque fantasy that there are "moderates" and "hardliners" in the mullahgarchic hierarchy that can be "played against each other" to our benefit? Will anybody at Foggy Bottom finally start paying attention and learn this lesson once and for all? Have you caught on yet that these are all rhetorical questions?
I recall right after the 9/11 attacks when Pat Robertson (or maybe it was Jerry Falwell, I forget which) suggested that al Qaeda might be an instrument of divine judgment against America for its tolerance and even celebration of homosexuality, and other assorted fragments of cultural rot and moral decay. While the suggestion was, and is, certainly debatable, and the timing of the comment of questionable taste at best, the firestorm of outrage from the left (which claims a monopoly on moral virtue) was deafening and out of all proportion to the provocation and the public stature of the source.
Yet here we have not just Islamic religious leaders, but the theocratic government of a Middle East regional power that openly seeks nuclear weapons and the long-range missiles to deliver them on their declared enemies leading a psychotic public orgy of rabid demands for the mass extinction of two entire nations, and it attracts nary a peep from that every same Enemy Media?
That is, of course, another rhetorical question. Besides, the celebrants were burning American flags and effigies of President Bush. The denizens of most newsrooms probably glommed those images for their computer wallpaper.
At least Hitler didn't tout Mein Kampf on his rise to power, first in Germany and then Europe. So dhimmized have we become that the mullahs believe discretion to be irrelevant, even as they continue to BS us in these interminable "negotiations." And will continue to do so until either we put a stop to their nuclear ambitions for them, or said ambitions are realized with a flash and a roar.
A generation of "tricks" is more than enough. It's long past time for some "treats" of our own.
posted by JASmius at 10:34 AM
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