Hugh Hewitt writes about the past and the present:
On March 7, 1936, “a small token of German troops paraded across the Rhine bridges at dawn…and entered the demiliterized zone,” wrote William Shirer in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. “As [General] Jodl testified at Nuremberg, ‘Considering the situation we were in, the French covering army could have blown us to pieces.'”
“It could have,” concluded Shirer, “and had it, that almost certainly would have been the end of Hitler.”
We are approaching such a moment.
He couldn’t be more correct. If Iran becomes a nuclear power with the leadership that country has, we could have a catastrophe of epic proportions.
Iran continues to say they are just building nuclear reactors to provide power to their country, which is quite odd seeing as how they sit on one of the largest oil reserves in the world.
The leader of the country continues to be quite delusional, recently stating that the holocaust never happened while at the same time calling for the destruction of Isreal:
Germany, Russia and Switzerland joined the European Union on Friday in a chorus of condemnation of the Iranian president for suggesting the Holocaust might not have taken place and that
Israel should be moved to Europe.The remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a news conference in the Saudia Arabian city of Mecca on Thursday, follow his call in October for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” which also sparked broad international criticism.
[…]Iran’s official news agency IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying of the Nazi Holocaust “Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces…”
“Although we don’t accept this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is: is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem?” he said.
All the while the world is sitting on it’s hands while hoping that talking the Iranians to death will prevent them from acquiring the bomb. In the past Iran has asked why is it that Isreal can have the bomb so why shouldn’t we? All well and good if that country was not delusional and homicidal. Allowing them to acquire the bomb will be suicide. But it seems no one is watching.
Should the world be watching after today’s statement from Iran?
The Zionist entity’s days are numbered, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in a meeting with senior Hamas member Khaled Mashal, according to an Islamic Republic News Agency report.
I’ll let Mark Steyn answer that:
So let’s see: We have a Holocaust denier who wants to relocate an entire nation to another continent, and he happens to be head of the world’s newest nuclear state. (They’re not 100 percent fully-fledged operational, but happily for them they can drag out the pseudo-negotiations with the European Union until they are. And Washington certainly won’t do anything, because after all if we’re not 100 percent certain they’ve got WMD — which we won’t be until there’s a big smoking crater live on CNN one afternoon — it would be just another Bushitlerburton lie to get us into another war for oil, right?)
So how does the United States react? Well, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that the comments of Ahmadinejad “further underscore our concerns about the regime.”
Really? But wait, the world’s superpower wasn’t done yet. The State Department moved to a two-adjective alert and described Ahmadinejad’s remarks as “appalling” and “reprehensible.” “They certainly don’t inspire hope among any of us in the international community that the government of Iran is prepared to engage as a responsible member of that community,” said spokesman Adam Ereli.
You don’t say. Ahmadinejad was speaking in the holy city of Mecca, head office of the “religion of peace,” during a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. There were fiftysomething other heads of government in town. How many do you think took their Iranian colleague to task?
Well, what’s new? But, that being so, it would be heartening if the rest of the world could muster a serious response to the guy. How one pines for a plain-spoken tell-it-like-it-is fellow like, say, former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali? As he memorably said of Iran, “It’s a totalitarian regime.” Oh, no, wait. He said that about the United States. On Iran, he’s as impeccably circumspect and discreet as the State Department.
[…]The political thugs certainly understand the power of psychological intimidation. Look at Saddam Hussein in court, so confident in his sneering dismissal of judge and witnesses that he’s generating big pro-Baathist demonstrations in Tikrit. I was struck by his complaint that the real terrorism was that he hadn’t been given a change in underpants in three days. I hope that’s true. It requires enormous strength of will on the part of free societies to bring blustering cocksure thugs down to size, even after we’ve overthrown them and kicked them out of the presidential palace. In Iran, President Ahmaddamytree figures that half the world likes his Jew proposals and the rest isn’t prepared to do more than offer a few objections phrased in the usual thin diplo-pabulum.
We assume, as Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax and other civilized men did 70 years ago, that these chaps may be a little excitable, but come on, old boy, they can’t possibly mean it, can they? Wrong. They mean it but they can’t quite do it yet. Like Hitler, when they can do it, they will — or at the very least the weedy diplo-speak tells them they can force the world into big concessions on the fear that they can.
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All the while the world is sitting on it’s hands while hoping that talking the Iranians to death will prevent them from acquiring the bomb. In the past Iran has asked why is it that Isreal can have the bomb so why shouldn’t we? All well and good if that country was not delusional and homicidal. Allowing them to acquire the bomb will be suicide. But it seems no one is watching.
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