Posted by
Hueguenot on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:19:15 AM
Opinions on the President Armageddonijad (sp?) Celebrity Roast at Columbia University today are like, well, you know, and everyone's got one. I wanted to touch on a couple of things that I haven't seen addressed yet. I'm in a snippy mood right now and will bend some of my own rules here and be as uncivil as you'll ever see me.
A lot of people named Tad and Buffy are high-fiving each other today about the "tough questions" asked of this Achmyachingheadijad character. And what did they expect to get from these tough questions? Forthrighness? Honest answers? Something other than theater of the absurd?
Actions speak louder than words, and this butcher's actions over the last 30 years have spoken volumes. Did they really think we'd glean any new insights from a speech? Actually, come to think of it, he did mention that Iran has no homosexuals (to loud guffaws from the audience) and I was not aware of that little nugget of information. (But were you to ask me "Do you think Iran has any homosexuals?" and had I given it any thought, my answer probably would have been "No. No I don't. I imagine the ones who haven't been killed are probably hoping they don't get outed in the gossip pages of the Tehran Times.")
Really, all I need to know is that this man has the blood of thousands of Americans on his hands. The young handsome man I saw at the grocery store with his wife and a Purple Heart license plate but no right arm? Quite possibly courtesy of one of Ahmawhatever's ingenious little I.E.D.s. Yep, all I really need to know. Forgive me for jumping to any hasty conclusions about him.
For those who second Ahmadinnerjacket's finger wagging on the "need to be open to scientific questioning of events", including the Holocaust (scientific rigor being a hallmark of Holocaust denyers): I have news for you. The scientific questioning of events happened a long time ago, was very thorough, and the verdict was in, 62 years ago. The evidence was so beyond what a person in the 1940's could wrap their mind around that General Eisenhower was afraid that nobody would believe it, would believe that anything that horrible and bestial could have been perpetrated by humans against humans.
See, Ike had your number. He foresaw the Holocaust denyers, and so made sure that as many soldiers, officers, politicians, journalists and German townsfolk as possible viewed the sickening physical evidence firsthand, and gathered a mountain of horrifying and heartbreaking photographic and physical evidence along the way. This before Photoshop was invented. The mounds of dead bodies and living skeletons gave mute testimony. The large number of Jews today without parents or grandparents or great-grandparents does, too. Ahmedinejad is too late. The questions were asked and answered before he was even spawned.
Finally, I hope this guy doesn't use nukes to force anyone to lower the Big Fist on him. I don't want another war, especially one that self-loathing Americans do their best to sabotage, and I'd like to see the university students of Iran have a chance to show American university students (and presidents) what backbone is and what it is to stand up to evil instead of giving it a microphone and a catered luncheon.
Take care.