That headline, of course, is taken from Ahmadinejad's speech yesterday to the United Nation's General Assembly – that most disgusting and corrupt waste of space, oxygen, and energy on the planet.
The revolutionary government of Iran in general, and its president Ahmadinejad in particular, remind me very strongly of Hitler and Nazi Germany just before the onset of WWII. Their shared hatred of Jews isn't even the main point of correlation there (though it is both striking and curious). The correlation that concerns me most is how those two countries were able to accumuate frightening power that represents an existential threat to world peace, all while the rest of the world did nothing effective about it.
Today's Wall Street Journal ($) contains two interesting commentary pieces on exactly this subject (here and here).
But what we really need, of course, is a credible counterpoint to Iran. Not just words, which is really the only thing the world has on offer at the moment. We need credible actions. That is, of course, exactly what the world needed before Hitler started invading other countries. Never happened. It probably won't happen now, either. There is one big difference between Hitler and Ahmadinejad, though: the latter will likely soon have nuclear weapons to threaten us with.
Charming.
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