Iran, the Paper Tiger (Liberal Head in the Sand Alert)

NYT ^ | 10/11/2010 | Roger Cohen

[mojito]

....Ahmadinejad is odious but I don’t think he’s dangerous. Some people do of course find him dangerous, especially in the Israel he gratuitously insults and threatens, and yet others — many more I’d say — find it convenient to find him dangerous....

Yes, Ahmadinejad is the bogeyman from Central Casting. One of the things there’s time for, if you’re not playing games with the Iran specter, is a serious push for an Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough that would further undermine the Iranian president.

I don’t expect that, however. And here are two more predictions: Obama won’t attack Iran and nor will Israel, not by next July or ever. Iran is a paper tiger, a postmodern threat: It has many uses but a third Western war against a Muslim country is a bridge too far.

[mojito]

If this clown, who has had the hutzpah to claim that Iranian Jews are happy with the regime, were not such a liberal doofus and an enabler, I would suspect that he's an Iranian agent.

[Fishtalk]

Cohen obviously gets a paycheck to write these directives from the White House as ordered.

For no way can common sense or a modicum of intelligence explain his silly assertion.

[Cicero]

News for Cohen. Bogeymen from central casting don’t torture dissidents in jail or send out their gunmen to randomly shoot student protestors.

They don’t have thousands of suicide bombers at their disposal. They aren’t within reach of having nuclear missiles. They don’t stone women for the crime of being gang-raped.

[tal hajus]

IMHO the sand is NOT where his head is.

[rmlew]

Iran’s a paper tiger, Iran has no weapon’s program, the nuclear program is too far along to do anything about, doing anything about the program will start WW3 so we should accommodate the Iranians. What’s the leftist or paleo appeasement of the week?

[rob777]

"Iran, the Paper Tiger"


Compared to the old Soviet Union or today's China, of course they are. That being said, they are still dangerous if for no other reason than their apocalyptic vision.

[Cacique]

Ajjjmedijad is no more dangerous today than Hitler was in 1939.

[SunkenCiv]

Roger Cohen (wrote this one for the New York Slimes):

Google

for example, the same nonsense over a year ago.

Thanks mojito.

[Cindy]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/10/12/iran_the_paper_tiger_243568.html

October 12, 2010

“Iran, the Paper Tiger”
Roger Cohen, New York Times

SNIPPET: “LONDON — I had breakfast last month in New York with the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Other journalists had lunch or dinner. Ahmadinejad’s passion for the hidden Imam, whose imminent return he expects, is matched only by his passion for Western media.”

[Cindy]

ping

[Cindy]

Bump to your post no. 7 Cacique.