He can lower his voice, remind you he is like any other academic looking for proof of a case and you are lulled into thinking here is a reasonable man. He puts a smile on his face and delivers a clever, sarcastic stinging line concocted to tweak Obama and he appears irresistibly clever, or he stands behind a podium being pummeled by his fist and thunders that no country will tell Iran what to do. And we listen and we parse his words and we weave our dreams that have nothing to do with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reality: Iran is the power in the Middle East and he is calling the shots.
The silence from Syria to the Saudis is deafening. Turkey, our NATO ally, is inclined to work with him diplomatically in recognition of their common border.
Obama is unable to quickly and convincingly get the major powers to sign on to stiff sanctions against Iran and now seems decidedly ineffective and weak. In the first hours of the Nuclear Summit in Washington last week, Ahmadinejad warned that an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities would result in nuclear attacks by elements able to reach into the American homeland.
Ahmadinejad followed this with a letter to Obama. In it he issues an invitation to work with him toward a diplomatic solution – to give up on his failed policies. The result would be that he would be reelected as having been a successful negotiator.Ahmadinejad the king maker? [DebkaFile]
Again thundering from the podium, Ahmadinejad this week ordered all foreigners and their troops out of the region. He sees clearly that “interference of foreigners served the root cause of all tensions and divisions in the region…[.]“ No one in the region has spoken this forcefully – not even Saddam. [news.xinhuanet.com]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may rule over a land prone to earthquakes (Tehran may have to be relocated); a land hobbled by the medieval pronouncements of mullahs (women who bare their bodies cause said earthquakes), and a land filled with thousands of citizens who have taken to the streets against his presidency, but he’s still standing. And he is still the one, strong voice from the Middle East. Few, including the United States, would take him on.
Somehow a Middle Eastern country with not the largest oil reserves has oil-needy nations cowering. Chasing oil or chasing terrorists – whatever it is that took us to the region, the big obstacle now is Iran. While Obama obsessed about health care reform; Ahmadinejad perfected his rhetoric and his nuclear capabilities.
Ahmadinejad now boasts his army is invincible; its weaponry equally so. An American President believes this. America needs the oil. It looks as if it will be Ahmadinejad’s way or the highway. Word is that already behind the scenes contact between Washington and Tehran has begun. So much for America as super power. Israel knows it is on its own, without our unquestioned support and everywhere the mind and mouth of one angry little man in Tehran has caused knowing hearts to stop.
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LisaInTX
April 20, 2010
Hahaha….nice satire! LOL
Iran against America? Or even Israel? And WHO has nukes?? Lots of them ????? And who is making threats of using them??? That is what is worrying me, not that Iran MIGHT attain nuclear power, but those that already have them pointed at yet another nation that has NOT attacked us.
samhenry
April 20, 2010
Honestly Lisa, I think Ahmadinejad has neutralized Obama and showed him for the weak sister he really is. And he has done it using rhetoric and showmanship with some nuclear backup. He has rockets and they think he has one that will reach the US by 2015. This may be propaganda to make us worry so we will be within our rights to attack him.
Regardless, he has called our bluff and I am sure you have read where we have really left Israel twisting in the wind.
Iran has threatened use of nuclear dirty bombs in the US if we attack him and i think that he will do that. This is giving Barack pause but also he is dithering.
LisaInTX
April 21, 2010
I wrote a really long response and it disappeared after I submitted…dang!!
Here is a video I found interesting and disturbing. What IF, it’s true??
You think that the Iranians don’t see the writing on the wall? That the West plans to FORCE them under heel or destroy them? Think they will just let the West go in there and not put up a fight for their survival? I know I would fight if it were me….
Imagine if a super power had destroyed and taken over Mexico or Canada and then made threats to the US to fall in line with their agenda or be attacked. Would you fight and make statements to that effect or would you invite them to dinner as friends?
Put yourself in the others moccasins and walk where they walk—something to think about.
samhenry
April 21, 2010
Lisa I’ll be 70 in two years. I’ve lived through a few wars. This kind of thing is, sorry to say, common. Remember the MeLi Massacre in Viet Nam?
Misinformation and disinformation are everywhere. After a time you don’t know what to think. Just remember, the enemy are not victims. “Civilians” may or may not be so innocent.
This instance does smack of a coverup and a retracton.
We were in the position of having a super power landnext to us and try to bully us. It was the Cuban Missile Crisis. And now we have Castro and Iran working together and Iran threatening to deploy “elements” to attack the homeland with nuclear materials if we attack them. Iran finances Al Qaeda, the Taliban and who know who else. The Ahmajinidad regeime is not innocent.
LisaInTX
April 21, 2010
Here is another….think those people do not have HATE for us with each and every unjustifiable killing?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
We are looking at a MUCH BIGGER Vietnam in the face.
Attacking Iran will be starting another World War. Can we afford to do this?
I did not say they were ‘innocent’, only that I understand how they must be looking at current events.
If they threaten to attack us because we attack or threaten them, who can blame them for their stance?
How do we REALLY know who Iran is financing…because the media tells us or our government? Look who controls BOTH and tell me they are not using propaganda to influence the world in their agenda of a NWO.
LisaInTX
April 21, 2010
Locusts have destroyed Iraq and now look at Iran as their next yummy meal ticket.
I have no doubt you will get your war on Iran and then the world will be not be safer, only death and destruction will come in places not conceived of..
IMO–Enjoy our lives as we know it today, for tomorrow may bring sorrow. :-\
samhenry
April 21, 2010
I just did a post on a Dept of Defense report that details where Iran has troops stationed around the world. In this hemisphere, we are increasingly surrounded – Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Barzil etc.
I have no doubt that if we attack Iran that there will be a world war. There is no certainty in any of this. People are doing the best they can.
LisaInTX
April 21, 2010
SH
I agree about doing the best we can. We are not in control of this world. Only God is and everything progresses according to His will.
It is hard for people to know the REAL truth unless we are there to see it in person, but even then, things are not always as they might seem.
LisaInTX
April 21, 2010
I just realized I changed my blog theme and it is the same as yours…lol… Great minds, huh?
.I really like the columns being separated on each side
samhenry
April 21, 2010
I think it is by far the most flexible and useful theme and yes, great minds do move in the same direction. Going up???