Ahmadinejad: Bow And Surrender

If there was any wonder about how Iran in the person of President Ah-might-need-a-job would respond to the UN on the 22nd, I'd say this about sums it up.

If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.

And it gets much better.

But they (America and Britain) had the audacity to postpone the cease-fire for at least three weeks. They explicitly declared that the Zionist regime should be allowed to crush the resistance, and to occupy the land, and that [only] then would there be a cease-fire. I want to declare loud and clear, so that the whole world will hear: These two countries are not worthy of being members of the Security Council.

Okay, he's running his war games with an Army we could destroy in under a month. He's re-supplying Hezbollah and funding who knows what other terrorist elements in the Middle East. The UN once again proved its lack of worth with this latest ceasefire. So, is Bush going to step up?

I honestly don't know if he's fallen away from the Bush doctrine of preemption and bought into the failed strategy of diplomacy one would expect from your average Democrat. If so, then he's not what I thought he was as a leader. Time will tell.

But if he allows this idiot to go about developing his nuclear capability unchecked, I suspect history will never forgive the man. You can read and see it all here.

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[ck]

Bush feigns weakness,delays,enemy goes crazy, gets ass kicked.Repeat as needed. It would be a lot easier to take the Peters/Quick "light your underpants on fire,Bush has no penis" routine if we hadn't been through this a couple of times already. We're winning, we can't have a fit at every setback.Olmert had a month to do weeks job, he wouldn't fight,now it's time to regroup.

[old trooper]

Where does the madness and arrorance originate? Ahmadinejad must be thinking that he is the 12th Imam.

A Look at the Muslims’ Mindset
August 22nd, 2006

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5784

“A grain of truth is needed to make a mountain of lies believable,” is an old saw. In fairness to Muslims, there is some substance to their claims against the West. For now, let us focus on the general mindset of Muslims which bears heavily on the hostility toward the West—a serious hostility that may bring about the dreaded Armageddon."

* Patriarchy and authoritarianism
* Blind obedience.
* Focus on goal.
* Fatalism.
* Psychological uniqueness.

"Slavery of the mind is as evil as the slavery of the body. Islamofacism enslaves them both.
Read the whole thing."

[Phoenix]

I don't underestimate Bush for one minute. Or the Israelis.

That 'psychological uniqueness' Old Trooper mentions is going to be the undoing of all of this - and, the final settlement of all of this. We won't be walking the catwalk in Burqa's any time soon.

[rwilymz]

"We won't be walking the catwalk in Burqa's any time soon"

I wouldn't underestimate the irony or crassness of Western "fashion". Nehru jacket? sheesh.

A burqa may very well be next summer's answer to scorching sun now that sunblock is prohibited in carryon...

[Herschel Smith]

I posted on this too, Dan. But, incredible but true, look for the forces of stupidity to want to "talk" to Iran in order to "compromise." And Iran is just smart enough to understand the forces of stupidity in our dear country, so he throws them a bone. They have agreed to "suspend" enrichment activities to ease tensions (while at the same time preventing the IAEA from inspecting the Nantanz site).

Can we start bombing now, please?

[ajacksonian]

Do note that according to al-Reuters it is the Revolutionary Guard out there, not the regular military. The Revolutionary/Special Guard are the 'elite' used by the regime to do such important things as: bust up protests, intimidate civilians and generally crackdown and suppress freedom of speech. The Basij are the ultra-special units to go into workplaces and such to make sure Islamic dresscode is followed, and also the wonderful men who took children to the front during the war with Iraq and got them to run towards machinegun nests and through minefields. The Iranian Regular Army is not trusted to do these things, nor go on manuevers anywhere near a border. And the Regular Army is not trusted with the neat toys of rockets and such, either... we never hear much of the Iranian Army... just the thugs of the regime... Revolutionary/Special Guards and Basij.

[jamie]

Maybe if we had not wasted our resources on an unnecessary war in Iraq, we would have the strength to deal with the Iranians head on. But with the ongoing mess we already have on our hands, we are hardly dealing with Iran from a position of strength.

[old trooper]

More than a few years back, after the UN had utterly and absolutely failed, wasted millions in resources and despite all of the windbag diplomacy, I and many others went to Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo to stop the genocide and mass murders under the colors of NATO. Maybe if we had not done that mission, which is still ongoing, there would be fewer Muslims in Eastern Europe.

I was never ashamed to have gone. It was the right thing to do. I spent 3 years there. The French troops that we relieved told us that it was an impossible mission, leaving secure compounds to patrol was very dangerous. I considered the source. We did patrols, we did raids, we confiscated weapons and explosives, we snatched up those who were responsible for the violence. We stopped the wholesale murder and mayhem, rounded up a great many of the punks and thugs and restored some sense of order.

It was an ongoing mess. There were resources wasted until a competent and robust force was assembled by NATO, after the UN had failed. Through the use of force, order was restored. Those places are still showing the damage but no more genocide.

So I will let history decide if it was unnecessary. We created a position of strength through actions, not rhetoric, like the UN.

Iran, Syria and Hezbollah are holding Lebanon hostage. The UN, again, is not up to task. Compromise with those Thugs will be like Neville Chamberlain`s efforts at Munich in 1938. Negotiations require honest brokers on each side. Iran has none. It will require the force of arms. Islam respects that and nothing less. When Diplomacy fails you have two choices. Appeasement is not a very good option.

[rwilymz]

"Maybe if we had not wasted our resources on an unnecessary war in Iraq"

Two problems in just one part of this sentence:
1] "wasted our resources"
2] "unnecessary war"

The resources were already being used -- rather, "wasted" -- per UN directive, to the tune of over 100,000 US troops [combat and support], and $25B annually to maintain them.

I find it disturbing that people find it "unnecessary" to take military action against a nation which:
1] supported terrorism
2] bragged of supporting terrorism, and
3] violated the cease-fire on a daily basis.
It sorta presumes that we should confine ourselves to fighting only one specific brand-name of terrorism, to wit: al Qaida, and leave all others alone, as if all others were "good terrorism" or some such.

You can't even make the claim that, "well, even though Hussein supported terrorism, he didn't support terrorism that targetted the US, so that puts him off the list" because that would be factually false.

Hussein supported Hamas with millions [that we know about], and Hamas was caught in the US in '97 preparing a bomb for the NYC subway system. Hussein provided sanctuary for Abu Nidal, the guy who killed Leon Klinghoffer, the retired US dentist, because he was American. Someone with more of an interest in minutiae can provide others. The list I've seen went on for a few pages.

"with the ongoing mess we already have on our hands, we are hardly dealing with Iran from a position of strength"

Yeah, it's always something, ainnit? We've got 75K troops babysitting Lil Kim -- again, for the UN -- who've been there for well over a half century. See, the UN is kinda like that. They're a black hole sucking down the manpower and military forces of altruistic nations like ... um, well, the US. France refuses to comply with UN requests for troops. They donated 200 to southern Lebanon. France, that bastion of altruistic moral relativism cannot be bothered to put muscle behind its words.

"What's that?"
"I dunno; some peace plan. Supposed to prevent a war."
"You support it?"
"I won't support it; you support it."
"I won't support it."
"I know! Let's get America! America will support any peace plan!"

And hence, we have troops strewn all over the globe, doing little but sitting around with their thumbs up their asses, preventing past war and keeping us from doing what needs to be done now. And we become the bad guy when, as in Iraq, we tell the UN to shit or get off the pot, and it becomes our brinksmanship when we want to leave Korea and Lil Kim goes whining to the press that it only proves the US is about to nuke them, cuz our troops are leaving to avoid the fallout.

And then when mental midgets such as Jamie show up, all full of their one PoliSci class, telling everyone how the real world operates ... well, idnat just special?

[Phoenix]

Have to hand it to Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for their efforst to rearrange the troop bases that are all over the globe. Hot points change, our bases have to change.

I haven't kept up with the changes, so cannot comment further, but it doesn't take much of a reality grip to realize we need bases in the Levant. Set 'em up - Move 'em out....

Hey. Maybe Jamie doesn't know what a draft is.

[OR]

"Iran is still a significant military power by Gulf standards. It has some 540,000 men under arms and over 350,000 reserves. They include 120,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards trained fro land and naval asymmetrical warfare. Iran's military also includes holdings of 1,613 main battle tanks, 21,600 other armored fighting vehicles, 3,200 artillery weapons, 306 combat aircraft, 60 attack helicopters, 3 submarines, 59 surface combatants, and 10 amphibious ships."

Seems forboding, even as a smaller military (materiel wise) in the region, roughly half the size of Iraq in the 90's and smaller than Israel's. Of course even thier American made stuff goes back to the 1960's and is being canibalized for parts. The best aircraft were MiG 29s seized from Iraq during GW's war (of course no WMDs were also moved there) and their "army" is mostly conscripts. They have all sorts of WMD's (none of Saddam's, right?) and will soon have LYT nukes.