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PROVIDING SUBSTANTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
Love Letter From the Sand
"Noble Americans . . ."
Thus began another conniving and twisted letter from
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s beady-eyed little president who
can barely sleep at night over all the injustices in the world, but
whose country is recognized by all as the leading state sponsor
of terrorism in the world.
But wait a minute. I almost forgot the elaborate preamble
to his cheery opening salutation to all the “Noble Americans.”
It went like this:
Message of H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
To the American People
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect
human being promised to all by You, and make us among his
followers.
Noble Americans . . .
You kinda get the impression the guy thinks rather highly
of himself, don’t you? H.E. (His Excellency)? What’s so
excellent about this Jew-hating theocratic authoritarian? And
Dr. Ahmadinejad? What is he doctor of, Islamo-voodoo? The
main focus of his life (besides wiping the Zionist regime of
Israel off the map) is waiting for what he believes to be the
imminent apocalyptic occurrences taught by his particular
brand of Islam. It’s all about the return of the twelfth Imam,
Muhammad ibn Hasan -- who is purported to be the righteous
descendant of the Prophet Muhammad -- which will be
preceded by cosmic chaos, war and pestilence.
So what could this fatalistic, Farsi-speaking fanatic
possibly have to say that would be of any interest to the world’s
most productive, innovative and optimistic people? We’ll get
to that in a moment.
First, months ago, as you may recall, Ahmadinejad wrote
a rambling, mostly incoherent 18-page letter directly to
President Bush in which he vilified everything America stands
for, denied the Holocaust, trashed the concept of liberal
democracy and basically said that Iran is the only country that
has the correct plan for how the world ought to operate. The
president saw it for what it was -- an insane piece of drivel
written by a madman obsessed with apocalyptic Islamic
claptrap -- and promptly filed it under junk mail not worthy of
a response.
But this Ahmadinejad is one smooth operator and he
recognizes an opportunity when he sees one. That opportunity
would be the recent midterm elections during which Democrats
gained a majority in both the House and Senate. It must have
seemed pretty clear to him that the will of a majority of the
noble American people was to get out of Iraq or why else would
they have voted in the Defeatocrats? So the time was right to
scribble out a new missive, a love letter from the sand, if you
will, directly to those noble Americans for whom he feigns so
much respect (despite their having put in power a bible-
thumping infidel cowboy president).
The gambit was to try and sweet talk Americans into
seeing things his way by complimenting them, honoring them
and pointing out that, hey, we’re all just regular, decent folks
and we all value basically the same ideals in this world such as
“compassion, empathy, respect for the rights of human beings,
securing justice and equity, and defending the innocent and
the weak against oppressors and bullies.”
Unfortunately, after a few opening paragraphs of such
fecklessly transparent buttering up of the noble American
people, he let loose with the same bombast that was in his
previous letter to President Bush: The war in Iraq was based
on lies; hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed;
America is guilty of blind support for the murderous Zionist
regime; the horrors of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib; America
maintains secret prisons around the world where terrible
things are being done to “presumed opponents;” civil liberties
are being trampled even within the confines of the United
States where “private phones are tapped, suspects are
arbitrarily arrested, sometimes beaten in the streets, or even
shot to death;” etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Of course, it’s not like Americans don’t hear this litany of
supposed crimes every day. With the exception of the Islamic
gobbledygook, most of what was contained in his letter could
have been culled from the editorial pages of almost any big city
American newspaper. Between that fact and the election
results, it’s no wonder that Mahmoud got inspired to sidestep
the president and scribble out his manipulative missive
directly to those noble American people he so admires.
Well, nuts to him. Just because most Americans want
some kind of foreseeable end to the fighting in Iraq doesn’t
mean that most Americans are in favor of a cut-and-run
scenario. Only the al-Qaida doormats of the far left want that.
Ahmadinejad’s smarmy letter to “noble Americans” is proof
positive that the nature of his understanding of most
Americans is colossally superficial.
And he needs to cut the “noble Americans” crap already.
He doesn’t respect us, he wants us all dead. At the “World
Without Zionism” conference in Iran in 2005, Ahmadgenocide
-- er, I mean, Ahmadinejad -- revealed that not only would he
like to see Israel wiped off the map, but getting rid of America
would be pretty groovy as well: “They [ask]: ‘Is it possible for
us to witness a world without America and Zionism?’ But you
had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and
surely can be achieved.”
You’re busted, dude! So much for all that blather about
justice, compassion, dignity, freedom and “our common human
spirit.” When you go spouting off in public about your fanciful
reveries of a world in which America no longer exists, you can
take your patronizing letter to us “noble Americans” and . . .
Well, use your imagination.
There’s a lot of loose talk flying around these days about
the need to talk to or even negotiate with Iran over Iraq, nukes
and other matters. Everybody’s positively on tenterhooks
waiting for some such advice to come out of that blue ribbon
commission, the Fabulous Baker Boys -- er, I mean, the Iraq
Study Group -- headed by former secretary of state, James
Baker.
But what is there to talk about with Ahmadinejad and the
other inflexible crazies running Iran? They want America and
Israel done, ended, finis, wiped from the map, gone from the
planet, which would make it easier for them to achieve
hegemony in the region, which is all just killing time anyway
until the return of the twelfth Imam, after which the world will
finally be united in Islamic splendor till the end of time, or
some such scenario. So where do our goals intersect with theirs
such that talking to them is worth the time of day?
Dear H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the
Islamic Republic of Iran: Stick it in your ear!
"Noble Americans . . ."
Thus began another conniving and twisted letter from
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s beady-eyed little president who
can barely sleep at night over all the injustices in the world, but
whose country is recognized by all as the leading state sponsor
of terrorism in the world.
But wait a minute. I almost forgot the elaborate preamble
to his cheery opening salutation to all the “Noble Americans.”
It went like this:
Message of H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
To the American People
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect
human being promised to all by You, and make us among his
followers.
Noble Americans . . .
You kinda get the impression the guy thinks rather highly
of himself, don’t you? H.E. (His Excellency)? What’s so
excellent about this Jew-hating theocratic authoritarian? And
Dr. Ahmadinejad? What is he doctor of, Islamo-voodoo? The
main focus of his life (besides wiping the Zionist regime of
Israel off the map) is waiting for what he believes to be the
imminent apocalyptic occurrences taught by his particular
brand of Islam. It’s all about the return of the twelfth Imam,
Muhammad ibn Hasan -- who is purported to be the righteous
descendant of the Prophet Muhammad -- which will be
preceded by cosmic chaos, war and pestilence.
So what could this fatalistic, Farsi-speaking fanatic
possibly have to say that would be of any interest to the world’s
most productive, innovative and optimistic people? We’ll get
to that in a moment.
First, months ago, as you may recall, Ahmadinejad wrote
a rambling, mostly incoherent 18-page letter directly to
President Bush in which he vilified everything America stands
for, denied the Holocaust, trashed the concept of liberal
democracy and basically said that Iran is the only country that
has the correct plan for how the world ought to operate. The
president saw it for what it was -- an insane piece of drivel
written by a madman obsessed with apocalyptic Islamic
claptrap -- and promptly filed it under junk mail not worthy of
a response.
But this Ahmadinejad is one smooth operator and he
recognizes an opportunity when he sees one. That opportunity
would be the recent midterm elections during which Democrats
gained a majority in both the House and Senate. It must have
seemed pretty clear to him that the will of a majority of the
noble American people was to get out of Iraq or why else would
they have voted in the Defeatocrats? So the time was right to
scribble out a new missive, a love letter from the sand, if you
will, directly to those noble Americans for whom he feigns so
much respect (despite their having put in power a bible-
thumping infidel cowboy president).
The gambit was to try and sweet talk Americans into
seeing things his way by complimenting them, honoring them
and pointing out that, hey, we’re all just regular, decent folks
and we all value basically the same ideals in this world such as
“compassion, empathy, respect for the rights of human beings,
securing justice and equity, and defending the innocent and
the weak against oppressors and bullies.”
Unfortunately, after a few opening paragraphs of such
fecklessly transparent buttering up of the noble American
people, he let loose with the same bombast that was in his
previous letter to President Bush: The war in Iraq was based
on lies; hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed;
America is guilty of blind support for the murderous Zionist
regime; the horrors of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib; America
maintains secret prisons around the world where terrible
things are being done to “presumed opponents;” civil liberties
are being trampled even within the confines of the United
States where “private phones are tapped, suspects are
arbitrarily arrested, sometimes beaten in the streets, or even
shot to death;” etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Of course, it’s not like Americans don’t hear this litany of
supposed crimes every day. With the exception of the Islamic
gobbledygook, most of what was contained in his letter could
have been culled from the editorial pages of almost any big city
American newspaper. Between that fact and the election
results, it’s no wonder that Mahmoud got inspired to sidestep
the president and scribble out his manipulative missive
directly to those noble American people he so admires.
Well, nuts to him. Just because most Americans want
some kind of foreseeable end to the fighting in Iraq doesn’t
mean that most Americans are in favor of a cut-and-run
scenario. Only the al-Qaida doormats of the far left want that.
Ahmadinejad’s smarmy letter to “noble Americans” is proof
positive that the nature of his understanding of most
Americans is colossally superficial.
And he needs to cut the “noble Americans” crap already.
He doesn’t respect us, he wants us all dead. At the “World
Without Zionism” conference in Iran in 2005, Ahmadgenocide
-- er, I mean, Ahmadinejad -- revealed that not only would he
like to see Israel wiped off the map, but getting rid of America
would be pretty groovy as well: “They [ask]: ‘Is it possible for
us to witness a world without America and Zionism?’ But you
had best know that this slogan and this goal are attainable, and
surely can be achieved.”
You’re busted, dude! So much for all that blather about
justice, compassion, dignity, freedom and “our common human
spirit.” When you go spouting off in public about your fanciful
reveries of a world in which America no longer exists, you can
take your patronizing letter to us “noble Americans” and . . .
Well, use your imagination.
There’s a lot of loose talk flying around these days about
the need to talk to or even negotiate with Iran over Iraq, nukes
and other matters. Everybody’s positively on tenterhooks
waiting for some such advice to come out of that blue ribbon
commission, the Fabulous Baker Boys -- er, I mean, the Iraq
Study Group -- headed by former secretary of state, James
Baker.
But what is there to talk about with Ahmadinejad and the
other inflexible crazies running Iran? They want America and
Israel done, ended, finis, wiped from the map, gone from the
planet, which would make it easier for them to achieve
hegemony in the region, which is all just killing time anyway
until the return of the twelfth Imam, after which the world will
finally be united in Islamic splendor till the end of time, or
some such scenario. So where do our goals intersect with theirs
such that talking to them is worth the time of day?
Dear H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the
Islamic Republic of Iran: Stick it in your ear!