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| Am Thinker: Evidence Accumulates that Ahmadinejad Really is Insane |
| 2006-07-23 |
| The biggest foreign policy question today is whether the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is really as utterly irrational as he talks. When he calls for wiping Israel from the map, is he serious? When he talks about privately communing with the Twelfth Imam, and of the Second Coming complete with Armageddon, is this guy for real? Does he understand that the Israelis can wipe him out with 200 real nukes if they are ever driven to that extreme? Well, now we know. Ahmadinejad just sent a letter to German Chancellor Merkel, apparently trying to persuade her to help him wrap up Hitler’s unfortunately failed effort at a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem. Obviously Ahmadinejad is living in a ‘way different mental universe. According to German government sources, the letter to Merkel: “is all related to Germany and how we have to find a solution to the Palestinian problems and Zionism and so on. It’s rather weird,” The official, who has seen the letter, said. “There’s nothing about the nuclear issue (in the letter),” the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity due to the extreme sensitivity of the issue for the German government. Angela Merkel is no fool. In February, Merkel compared Ahmadinejad’s statements and stance to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power when he and his Nazi party began threatening to exterminate European Jewry. “Remember that in 1933 many people said it was just rhetoric,” she said. |
| Posted by:Chereger Chavitch4995 |
| #11 He's 5'2" He has a Napoleon complex. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-07-23 22:26 |
| #10 Oldcat: Iranian arms are airlifted to Syria. The status-quo-ceasefire and anti-Shiite "umbrella" options are non-starters. It will soon become clear that Israel will not accept a permanent missile threat. And if you listened to Gingrich on Hannity this week, you would probably agree that we are in World War 3. We are the rear-base; Israel is the front-line. If we leave the problem of Shiite aggression to diplomats, then we will be on the front-line. Try to justify your pension to the next generation, when they ask us why we indulged a Homeland threat. |
| Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-23 22:02 |
| #9 So these 20000 troops walk thru Iraq into Syria and fight the IDF --- how? By throwing rocks at them? Thats just more POWs for the IDF to feed. The hype is going on because Syria is cut off from Iran once shooting starts and you cant rely on 'passenger jets' to fly supplies in. And even firing missiles will have no military effect on the equation - not even nukes. They just don't have the accuracy to do anything but kill civilians. And they will only get one shot, the US will see to that. |
| Posted by: Oldcat 2006-07-23 16:33 |
| #8 Iran would intervene by missile launches from its own territory. Also, as many as 20,000 Iranians visit Iraq daily. Once in they could pass through Syria. US occupiers grant an absolute right of Shiites to visit Karbala, for martyr rites. Freedom of religion - including self-flagellation and martyr incitement - was part of the package offered post-Saddam Iraq. Infiltration would be easy. Here is Ahmadinejad's website: www.president.ir/eng |
| Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-23 16:25 |
| #7 How? Syria has no common border with Iran. They could do it through Turkey, including through Turkish airspace. Iran and Turkey have been cooperating well militarily lately, and both are benefitting from this little diversion in Lebanon. Why not keep a good thing going? |
| Posted by: Azad 2006-07-23 12:37 |
| #6 When that happens, Iran will directly engage Israel. How? Syria has no common border with Iran. |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-07-23 12:07 |
| #5 Insane? Hardly. Ahmadinejad completed a multi city tour of Iran, days prior to the kidnapping terror incidents on the Israel's borders. At each stop, he claimed that the end of Israel was near. Everything that has occured, has been part of a plan to escalate the current tension. The destruction of much of HizboLebanon was expected. As I see the plan, Syria will transfer long range missiles to north Lebanon, and launch them en masse at Tel Aviv. Launchers will be returned to Syria, and Israel will be forced to engage Syria. When that happens, Iran will directly engage Israel. What will US troops do while this is happening? Iran expects that US relations with Iraq's Shiite leadership will inhibit direct US intervention, thus leaving Israel alone to fight the Shiites. If Israel is overwhelmed, then Sunnis will also intervene. Of course, there is the "Sampson Option," but the US would prefer that Israel sue for a humiliating peace. |
| Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-23 11:38 |
| #4 beliving an iman is going to come out a well to save you in a few weeks is pretty insane. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-07-23 11:34 |
| #3 I don't know if its insanity or a big misunderstanding of how the world works. If you really believed that the Holocaust was faked than Germany would be a huge loser on that faked-deal and might be up for some vengence. So the question is, does living in a bubble and having really bad information make you insane or uniformed? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-07-23 10:47 |
| #2 Was Hitler insane? WilhelmII? Napoleon? Does it matter? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-23 10:39 |
| #1 You don't have to convince me. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-07-23 10:38 |