Monday, June 02, 2008

Do We Believe Him Yet?

Maximum Pipsqueak Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is once again huffing and puffing and threatening to blow Israel's house down. "I must announce," declares the ferret-faced terror-monger, "that the Zionist regime, with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene" -- repeating, as breitbart.com primly puts it -- "his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear." This is a genteel reference to Ahmadinejad's belief in the forthcoming advent of the Twelfth Imam, under whose gentle tutelage the state of Israel, the United States and all other "satanic powers" will vanish off the face of the earth.

By any chance, is Ahmadinejad talking about more than just his religious beliefs? Is his idea of the Age of Aquarius coming along fast enough for him, or is he a little impatient? Is he thinking in terms of a few hundred megatons to usher in the Twelfth Imam? Are we, and those we elect to govern us, seriously asking ourselves these questions?

Over sixty years ago, we discovered, to our considerable cost, the perils of ignoring a lunatic. Have we learned our lesson, or will we need to learn it all over again?

3 comments:

  1. I suspect in characterizing a past enemy as a lunatic, we fail to recognize his seductive appeal and the presence of his policies among us, embraced without regard to their consequences.

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  2. I suspect in characterizing a past enemy as a lunatic, we fail to recognize his seductive appeal and the presence of his policies among us, embraced without regard to their consequences.

    Not at all. I use the term "lunatic" not in a clinical sense, but to describe the derangement that results from embracing evil (which itself has always been seductive in a fallen world). My point was not to dismiss the past enemy as a mere lunatic, but to point out the danger of doing so.

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  3. Silly Anita. Don't you know that Ahmadinejad was speaking metaphorically?

    That's what the lefties tell me . . .

    /sarc

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