Posted on 12/15/2006 8:01:29 AM PST by MNJohnnie
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Victor Davis Hanson: Talking to Iran is a mistake for strategic, moral reasons jewishworldreview.com ^ | December 14, 2006 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 12/14/2006 12:58:43 PM CST by Tolik
One of the many bizarre recommendations in the recently released report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group is the call to talk with Iran. A formal dialogue with the present Iranian leadership is, for a number of reasons, as misguided as it is amoral.
Our guides in these scary times of facing aggressive dictatorships still should be Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, not the British prime minister Stanley Baldwin and Joe Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Britain, who leading up to 1939 thought good could come out of talking with the Nazis.
First, the Iranian leadership goes beyond the usual boilerplate anti-Israel, anti-Semitic claptrap of the region. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has serially denied the Holocaust while promising the absolute destruction of Israel. Various mullahs have characterized Israel as a "one-bomb state," implying a single Iranian nuclear bomb could destroy it. The vicious hatred is so institutionalized in Iran's state-run media that a science-fiction TV series there depicts the evil alien queen as Jewish.
Why should we give stature to and empower a theocracy that apes the hatred of the Third Reich? .....
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Hiya guv'nor.
Have to go at hour's top.
Enjoyed today's show thus far.
But then I usually do!
He should take Jane Fonda with him.
Rocky 2,3,4 and 5 were bombs.
I'll probably pass on 6...
Actually McClellan was a great organizer and had a great training insight. His mistake was that he was so proud of what he had created that he wouldn't take the risk of destroying it by the casualties he would take. He was also good at getting the men and the money
He built a great army but was afraid to use it.
Today his ideal job would be at the Pentagon or in a TRADOC type job.
None of you (unless you work with them) know how much many judges think they are lords over us.
2 was ok, but not as good as 1. WIfe and I will be seeing the Will Smith movie tomorrow.
1 in 7 died of wounds in the war between states and in world war II 1 in 50 died of wounds which one is more bloodyer?
The soundtrack for Rocky 1 was good also.
Well, you just go ahead and do that.
Guardian-readers... GRRRR!
Go get 'em! lol
Don't forget that Burnside was little slugish at Antietam too
For someone who didn't want casualties, Antietam must have been quite an eye-opener.
Thank you.
I'm checking out for awhile to listen to Rush in one ear and the annual fiscal update conf call in the other.
Have a great weekend.
UKRaddell, I too, would welcome you to this country.
The only movie I ever truly fell asleep watching was Rocky-1. And it was in the 70s when we had the Carter energy crisis, so the theater was freezing!
That and the debacle at Fredericksburg ... sheesh.
A mate of mine (who is pretty much on the same page as us) has the misfortune to work for the Guardian.
I sent him a couple of links (as I recall National Review and the Weekly Standard) to his work e-mail and....access was denied!
I'm no conspiracy theorist but....
Even though he lost the battle, Lee was brilliant at Antietam.
Why would Rush have him on to talk about a movie?
As i pointed out yesterday Union Casualties at Antietam were at 12,400
Thank you my friend.
You have a great weekend also.
I know I'm going to.
When the North London moonbats see me arrive this evening though, I think their weekend may take a turn for the worse!
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