Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Hey! They look a lot like us!

Do you really want to bomb this country? Why?

This is not a rhetorical question. I'd love to hear someone's answer.

And, yes, Cat Stevens is a hypocrite. So re-make the slide show using your own preferred song. Keep your eye on the ball, though.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you really think we should let a psychopath screaming he's going to destroy Israel and that the holocaust never occured have the H-bomb?

Xon said...

Anonymous, I don't normally allow anonymous comments. Just so you know, I'd appreciate it if you include a name of some sort from now on. It doesn't have to be your full legal name, but it needs to be something that you are willing to stick to in this conversation. Own what you way in public.

As to your question, I want to hear evidence (though that is a largely rhetorical request since I don't see how anyone could have any) that Ahmadenijad is a 'psychopath'. When exactly did he scream that he's "going" to destroy Israel? More importantly, why do you believe that he

a. would actually try, and

b. would actually succeed?

Israel can take of herself. And I don't mean that dismissively, like "Israel can go to H---". I mean it quite sincerely; I believe that Israel is fully capable of making a nation like Iran think twice before they would go nuclear. The very idea that Isreal could be 'destroyed' by such an attack is simply not believable. And the notion that Ahamdenijad (who doesn't really direct Iranian policy anyway) is so blatantly irrational as to be willing to blow up everyone in Israel and his own country is, again, too difficult to believe without some extraordinary evidence.

I'm familiar with the rhetoric about 'crazy' Iran, but I want to see the substance behind it.

Xon said...

Oh, and one other point is simply that I don't see any morally plausible argument that we are allowed to possess atomic bombs, but other countries are not. This is the sort of "exceptionalist" approach to foreign affairs that drives other countries nuts.

Rob said...

Xon. Thanks.

Rabbi Saul said...

Wow, reminds me of my trip to Azerbaijan, which is in the same neighbourhood, though in the former USSR.

JT said...

Why is Cat a hypocrite?

Xon said...

I was thinking of his conversion to Islam and his approval of the fatwa on Surhan Surhan, etc.

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