Iran , Podhoretz, and Ghouliani...

[CTuttle]

Speaking of Podhoretz and Ghouliani… Fareed Zakaria nails it:

The American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality. Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative ideologist whom Bush has consulted on this topic, has written that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “like Hitler … a revolutionary whose objective is to overturn the going international system and to replace it in the fullness of time with a new order dominated by Iran and ruled by the religio-political culture of Islamofascism.” For this staggering proposition Podhoretz provides not a scintilla of evidence.

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When the relatively moderate Mohammed Khatami was elected president in Iran, American conservatives pointed out that he was just a figurehead. Real power, they said (correctly), especially control of the military and police, was wielded by the unelected “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Now that Ahmadinejad is president, they claim his finger is on the button. (Oh wait, Iran doesn’t have a nuclear button yet and won’t for at least three to eight years, according to the CIA, by which point Ahmadinejad may not be president anymore. But these are just facts.)

In a speech last week, Rudy Giuliani said that while the Soviet Union and China could be deterred during the cold war, Iran can’t be. The Soviet and Chinese regimes had a “residual rationality,” he explained. Hmm. Stalin and Mao—who casually ordered the deaths of millions of their own people, fomented insurgencies and revolutions, and starved whole regions that opposed them—were rational folk. But not Ahmadinejad, who has done what that compares? One of the bizarre twists of the current Iran hysteria is that conservatives have become surprisingly charitable about two of history’s greatest mass murderers.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/57346/output/print

Is there any rational individuals left on the Hill???
:banghead:

[PDJane]

1. Odd..........

when I look at the world, Bush comes closest to Hitler and the third Reich.

[jeff30997]

2. Yeah and Pol Pot was a really gentle person.

:banghead: indeed!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. I was just flipping through Podhoretz's new book "World War Four" and

thinking how behind the times Bush is with his lame WWIII stuff.

He is a fricking nut.