Question for Meteor Blade
My friend, I do not wish death upon every Muslim as you claim. Only the millions and millions of them that would wish death upon me, my family, and my fellow non-muslims for not converting to their ways. It is my opinion from all I have seen and read that there are numbers that i speak of in the hundreds of millions neighborhood. Maybe not but surely in the tens of millions.
I agree there are many good Iranians, especially the younger generations. But having said that, I feel that it is incumbant upon those fine folks to either change the course of their country or suffer the consequences of their countries policies and actions. Perhaps if we were to unilaterally express our grave concerns and threaten their destruction if they didn't change their ways they might understand the importance of such immediate change and take action. I certainly do not believe that we should sit on our hands for 20 or 30 years and hope.
Ahmadinejad's statements declaring that Israel is a dispicable stain on the map of the middle east and should be destroyed has been well reported. I suggest you do your homework on that. and what do you think all of the centrifuges that he is rushing to build at lightening pace is for===a new carnival ride?
How much time to we give Iran my friend and what do we do in your opinion if Iran is found to have or nearly have nukes? Perhaps send Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Reverend Jackson over there to work it out with those ever-so-reasonable and cooperative folks? What then my friend?
Comments
Gary, I understand your concern with Iran, it is a complicated issue to say the least. The mind set of the average mid eastern male is that they are bullies and bullshitters. When the leader of Iran says that Israel must be wiped off the map, he is simply playing to the fundamentalists of his own party, sort of like what Sadam was doing when he said he didn't have WMD's but implied by his actions that he did....which he really didn't. We really have to look closely at these things before we over react. I agree that we cannot allow them to ever have nuclear weapons. I agree that they would like to spread Islam to the whole world, just as Christians would like to spread Christianity to the whole world. This is not to compare Christianity to Fundamentalist terrorist, you can't. But they do have the same goal. Persoanlly, I'll piss on any koran or scripture that says I should accept it or die. Be patient, they are being dealt with. They will stop their program or it will be stopped. Israel is waiting quietly to see what happens, they know they still have time. If we don't react, they will.
Posted by: joe shaw | May 20, 2008 09:57 PM