You have been wrong about Bush, you have been wrong about Iraq, you have been and continue to be, well simply, wrong-wrong-wrong.
From someone's who's sky is pink, and who's EVERY mental thought ever verbalized into speech, is impossible to differentiate from the wailing and whimpering of a spoiled child, I guess the rest of us can understand your perspective.
I show you two different articles, of many, that have been reported about the agenda and mental condition of Ahmadinejad, and you STILL REFUSE to accept the man at his own words.
And it doesn't matter to you that Ahmadinejad, in a position of leadership with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), helped to train HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG IRANIANS to turn themselves into Martyrs, clearing Iraqi minefields with their very bodies (and lives).
These children who rolled to their deaths were part of the Basiji, a mass movement created by Khomeini in 1979 and militarized after the war started in order to supplement his beleaguered army.The Basij Mostazafan--or "mobilization of the oppressed"--was essentially a volunteer militia, most of whose members were not yet 18. They went enthusiastically, and by the thousands, to their own destruction. "The young men cleared the mines with their own bodies," one veteran of the Iran-Iraq War recalled in 2002 to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. "It was sometimes like a race. Even without the commander's orders, everyone wanted to be first."
The sacrifice of the Basiji was ghastly. And yet, today, it is a source not of national shame, but of growing pride. Since the end of hostilities against Iraq in 1988, the Basiji have grown both in numbers and influence. They have been deployed, above all, as a vice squad to enforce religious law in Iran, and their elite "special units" have been used as shock troops against anti-government forces. In both 1999 and 2003, for instance, the Basiji were used to suppress student unrest. And, last year, they formed the potent core of the political base that propelled Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--a man who reportedly served as a Basij instructor during the Iran-Iraq War--to the presidency.
Ahmadinejad revels in his alliance with the Basiji. He regularly appears in public wearing a black-and-white Basij scarf, and, in his speeches, he routinely praises "Basij culture" and "Basij power," with which he says "Iran today makes its presence felt on the international and diplomatic stage." Ahmadinejad's ascendance on the shoulders of the Basiji means that the Iranian Revolution, launched almost three decades ago, has entered a new and disturbing phase. A younger generation of Iranians, whose worldviews were forged in the atrocities of the Iran-Iraq War, have come to power, wielding a more fervently ideological approach to politics than their predecessors. The children of the Revolution are now its leaders.
ocnus.net
globalsecurity.org
Consider how this misery-producing confrontation has played itself out. It went from a couple of soldiers being kidnapped to the destruction of Lebanon...again.
No, it went from the Israelis pulling out of S. Lebanon to Hizbullah, via financial, spiritual, and military support of Iran and Syria, controlling S. Lebanon and acting as if they have the right and priviledge to force Lebanon into a conflict with Israel.
This conflict is not the responsibility of the Israelis. It's the responsibility of the Lebanese government to fail to confront Hizbullah.
It may, or may not, be over-reaction. Hell, people who think like you were claiming that overthrow of the Taliban was an over-reaction against 20 million people, merely because a couple of thousand fanatical Arabs were responsible for orchestrating the 9/11 attack.
And it's because people like you fail to recognize the threats that are presented by fanatics like Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Nasrallah, Saddam, (the list goes on) that millions of people must suffer.
Hizbullah, an organization that was ordered by the UNSC to disarm, didn't accumulate 12,000 Katyushas from Iran and Syria merely to let them rust, or to become archaological relics.
And Hizbullah is not spreading leaflets, or sending radio warnings to civilian Israelis to clear out of the range of these missiles..
No.. they ARE TRYING TO KILL CIVILIANS!!! THEY WANT TO KILL CIVILIANS!!
And yet, people of your ilk can't fathom the difference.
And worse, you can't fathom that fact that these problems existed PRIOR to this administration, and it's going to extend beyond the length of this current administration.
Hawk |
