The vultures circle
Bookworm on Jan 28 2009 at 8:39 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
A couple of days ago, Obama was on rabidly Islamist, anti-American, antisemitic Al-Arabiya television tacitly conceding that it’s all America’s fault. (And if you’re asking what is all America’s fault, the answer is everything.) Is it any surprise, therefore, that Ahmadinejad instantly demanded that America apologize for various unspecified “crimes”? Vultures are quick to spot a body that’s about to rot. We can only hope that Hillary (Hillary!) stands strong — although even she seems to be victim to the same delusion that America can “reason” Iran into behaving reasonably.
We’ve seen this all before, of course. As Dennis Prager pointed out, the current trope amongst the “intellectuals” is that “terror is the new Communism.” By saying this, the college types are not saying that the Islamic drive for worldwide hegemony, like the Communist drive, is going to kill tens or hundreds of millions, and enslave infinitely more. Nor are they saying that Islamism, like Communism, already has killed and enslaved people in the millions. Nor are they saying the Islamism, like Communism, has as its fervent desire the goal of killing Americans and Jews.
Instead, these “educated” types are saying that, just as America got involved in a futile battle with Communism, turning it into a frightening bogeyman that led directly to the evil of McCarthy-ism, so too is America involved in a futile battle with the misunderstood Islamists, and destroying American liberties with the Patriot Act (although I defy a single college professor or student to cite an realistic example of average Americans having their liberties curtailed by the Patriot Act).
Lastly, what these educated types really mean, as you can see from the pronouncements emanating from the new administration, is that we should just talk to Islamists, just as they urged for decades that we should just talk to the Communists — presumably to make them see the error of their ways. In this, they show a remarkable historical amnesia, because it wasn’t talk that brought down the Soviet Union, it was relentless external pressure from the Reagan administration.
Evil totalitarian regimes work through fear and intimidation, both external and internal. Keeping the pressure on from outside forces these regimes to work double and triple time to maintain their control at home, let alone abroad. And because they are non-productive societies (being statist), they start to collapse under the weight of that external pressure. Talk, of course, is not pressure, and it gives these statist regimes room to gobble up new countries (new people, new industries, new arable fields) to compensate for their production failures on home turf. Talk is the last thing we should be doing, unless its the kind of talk that makes them feel very, very worried.
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Yeah. The guy who lectures American Republicans that they won’t be able to work with him if they keep listening to Rush Limbaugh, then wants to have a dialogue of mutual respect with the various Thugifates of the Middle East.
Typical liberal stuff. Domestic enemies among your own people are really your enemies, while your real enemies outside are just misunderstood folks from fascinating diverse cultures.
Reminds me of Grace Adler on Will & Grace. She was one of those people who could not abide it if someone disliked her. Especially if that person was someone only tangentially related to her. Would do all she could to seduce them into thinking well of her. But she regularly loathed her mother.
Barry may have style, but at best he’s a brown version of John Edwards, with a smaller house, better teeth and no love-child. At worst, a hip Jimmy Carter. I have been trying to keep an open mind (it’s only been a week), but I am not at all optimistic.
I believe that Fouad Ajami (a Muslim and perhaps our best Middle East historian after Bernard Lewis) got it right: Obama just notified Middle East dictators that the U.S. will be their friend and supporter. They are off the hook.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310499999722371.html
All those Muslims living under dictatorship in North Africa, Arabia and Iran are simply out of luck and are going to have to adjust to those same hopeless situations that nurtured Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups. Back to the future it is. Unfortunately, I fear that we will soon be in the same boat, here, as our democracy gets stripped away step by step to the applause and cheers of our own “useful idiot” Democrat party. Ah yes, and the Islamic world will just love us for it. Sure they will.
It is the “anti-anti’s” so common among the intelligentsia that drive me crazy. For example, the decades long reign of the anti anti-communists. How gauche to acknowledge the obvious, that communism was a disasterous evil, and side with John Q. Public. No, far better to be sophisticated, engage in dialogue, and explain communism away. That way, one received not only funding but the delicious frisson of that academic fetish, “transgression” (merely in words but not actions, however). The American left was dead wrong on communism. The end result was either appeasment, at best; ennablement in most cases; or treason, at worst.
I shouldn’t “psychologize”, but will do so anyway. The anti-anti’s seem to derive their motivation from:
a) Class snobbery
b) The desire to seek deep truths, the delight in finding apparently counter-intuitive truths
c) The academic predilection for talk over action. It’s OK to play around with ideas but don’t mistake them for reality. Moreover, in the real world of policy words have consequences.
d) Some variant of the following, depending on the severity of the case: either the Stockholm syndrome (extreme), going native (excessive empathy), or departmental groupthink (normal human weakness).
e) Lastly, and this is *very* conjectural on my part, cowardice as manifested by displacement. It goes something like this: The reality of Islamic terrorism is too scary to confront directly, so abstract the quality of “fundamentalism’ from all religions, and ascribe it specifically to American Christianity. Now you can attack the great American “booboisie” to relieve your anxiety. Bonus points for your impartial moral equivalency and cosmopolitanism!
Didn’t someone once say that “the enemy of my friend is my friend”?
I might add that Obama and others are stuck on stupid by falling for the same old multiculti sophomoric syllogism:
Injustice is caused by the powerful
America is the most powerful nation
Therefore America is the most unjust country on earth.
(BTW, Albert Hirschman wrote a wonderful little book called “The Rhetoric of Reaction”, in which he criticized the right for shoehorning all advances into the categories of perversity, folly, or inutility. It’s time that someone did the same for the tired rhetorical arguments of the left.)
The point of my rant? The left is making the same mistakes in the current long war. The point can be made by looking at Richard and Daniel Pipes, distinguished Russian scholar and son, director of the Middle East Forum. Jay Nordlinger had a great profile of them at: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTkxYTUzYTY2NTVlYTI5OWJhNzdlNWRlNjljNGJjODQ=
Er, should be “enemy of my enemy is my friend” in the above rant.
Add to #3 above…intellectual pride.
Manifested in the necessity of disagreeing with “common knowledge” so as to elevate oneself to a position of being wiser than the hoi polloi. A version of class snobbery, though not limited to any particular class.
Personally, I put Kerry and Obama in this class. Both of them.
And according to Danny, they must both be afflicted with a healthy (or maybe unhealthy) dose of Frenchness…!
Of course, we _know_ Kerry is afflicted with the French talk-em-to-death gene, but it’s not so apparent with Obama – probably due to his color which distracts. Have to do an ancestor tree on him – there _must_ be French in there somewhere! Talk-em-to-death plus surrender. Bad combination.
A book review on a Spencer book.
Several good articles on GoV – I recommend you also check out the main page.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/01/fjordman-reviews-robert-spencers.html
All cogent comments. The “anti-anti” crowd fail to ask themselves, and fail to thoroughly research this question: “Who do you think these people are?”
Kerry made nice with the Sandinistas in the 1980s, apparently unaware that in March 1980 the Sandinistas had signed a joint resolution with the USSR which supported the USSR on its invasion of Afghanistan.
Jimmah and others make nice with Hamas, apparently unaware that Hamas has said it will NEVER agree to the existence of the State of Israel, and that numerous Hamas leaders have called for the EXTERMINATION of Jews.
Ditto Kerry, Pelosi ( and David Duke) making the pilgrimage to Damascus, while Assad Junior had offed numerous Lebanese politicians and Assad Senior had brought the term “Hama Rules” into existence.
Part of this is hubris. They believe that if they make nice with these thugs, that the thugs will change. I have no such belief in my own powers of persuasion.
From the Jerusalem Post and speaking of dictatorships and Muslim/ Arab regimes…here’s a ditty that speak volumes about dealing with vultures.
Hamas stops Gaza kids leaving for Kibbutz Movement-sponsored vacation
By BRENDA GAZZAR
Dozens of Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip who were due to enter Israel for a two-week vacation were prevented from leaving the territory by Hamas officials on Wednesday, Israel said.
Most of the children were orphaned as a result of the IDF bombing during Operation Cast Lead, The Kibbutz Movement had sponsored the vacation for 47 children, who are between the ages of four and 13. The children were to be accompanied by five adults from the Strip as well as Arabic-speaking youth movement members from Israel, and were to be hosted in Kafr Kasem, Haifa and Kibbutz Sasa.
“Hamas prevented them from leaving today,” said Peter Lerner, an Israeli defense official. “Hamas was responsible for letting them get out…The press
was waiting at the Erez crossing for them to come. The Kibbutz Movement was waiting for them to come.”
Prime Minister’s Office spokesman Mark Regev said he had not previously heard about the incident Wednesday, but told The Jerusalem Post that “Hamas, through its actions, continually demonstrates that the last thing on its mind is the well-being of the civilian population of the Gaza Strip.”
Obama’s choice of media coupled with the attached article should scare the hell out of all of us. A week into the job and we’re are all ‘weak’ by his actions.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30422
“Terror is the new communism” = more bodies. Dead ones.
Despite B. Hussein’s pronouncements on Al-Arabiya television, Muslims in the Middle East will continue to regard America as an enemy … but they do recognize they have a friend in the White House. God help us all, and especially Israel.
Remember those late night discussions in high school when we just knew how to solve the problems of the world? Obama’s emerging policies and plans strike me as similarly simplistic and naive. The Law of Unintended Consequences is going to get a lot of exercise in the next few years. God grant they be few.
I told my wife today in the car that Obama’s next step will be the withdrawal of U.S. support for Israel.
She didn’t argue.
She may be beginning to have second thoughts.
Greetings:
Back in my military days, there was a bit of folk wisdom that went, “To hunt the tiger, you must first learn the ways of the tiger.” When the Muslim/Arab problem began to bubble up past its usual (and permanent) simmer, I turned to the writings of both Fouad Ajami and Bernard Lewis (whom Danny Lemieux mentions in #2 above) among others for some education.
One of Mr. Ajami’s articles that impressed me dealt with his assessment of one of the differences between the Arab/Muslims and Americans, namely, the family home architecture. Mr. Ajami compared the welcoming openness of “front porch” America with the isolating walled enclosures of the Arab world. Two Arab proverbs from Mr. Ajami’s work have stuck with me. The first is the “I against my brother; my brother and I against our cousin; and my brother, my cousin and I against the stranger.” The other is “I tell my daughter-in-law so that my neighbors will hear.” I don’t know about you folks, but this seems like a kind of paranoid culture to me.
Subsequently, I read “Culture and Conflict in the Middle East” by Philip Carl Salzman, an anthropologist. His research was actually done in Iran, but his conclusion, or main thesis, is that the current Arab/Muslim/Middle East culture has evolved primarily from the area’s nomadic Arab tribes. One of his best anecdotes about this culture was the story of a nomadic herder talking to a peasant farmer. The nomad says, “You have your farm and your house. I have my horse and my whip. I will kill you and go.”
Recently, I needed a break from the Middle East insanity, so I began reading “Comanches: The History of a People” by T.R. Fehrenbacher. However, I was quickly struck by the number of similarities between the Arab/Muslim culture and that of the American Indian tribe. One of the things this author pointed out was that the adoption of the “horse technology” by the Comanches trapped them in a stagnant and doomed culture. Pre-horse, the Comanche men spent most of their time just hunting to get food. The remaining time was devoted to raiding other Indians. With the arrival of the horse, hunting took much less time and that extra time was then devoted to raiding. This cultural shift eventually brought down the wrath of American settlers which resulted in the Comanches downfall.
My analogy for the Arab/Muslims is that they, similarly, got trapped in the Islamic ideology. Their initial and longer term successes trapped their culture. The challenge that faces us, in my opinion, is that we must either destroy the Islamic ideology or the Muslims. Otherwise, like with the Comanches in Texas, we will be in for what my father called “a long lingering fit of sickness.
This isn’t really OT, but I was struck by the emphasis of culture in 11B40′s post. It makes me appreciate how different cultures fight so hard to preserve themselves even when they know that history is passing them by.
For example, Drudge reports that the Democrat pork…er, stimulus bill contains $350m to fight STDs. See…the Democrats are fighting hard to protect their culture, too.
>>I don’t know about you folks, but this seems like a kind of paranoid culture to me.>>
Well…you know what they say: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re _not_ out to get you”!
There’s good reason for the “front porch” America” and “the isolating walled enclosures of the Arab world” … security. Looking back to your American Indian vs white man comparison (which I agree with, by the way), there’s a bit of the same thing. Where there is no law, and the settlement is subject to attack by the nomad, you need a different type of security than where people are law-abiding and danger is minimal. For all our criminal problems, we still are no wheres near the danger that exists in the ME countries. It is as you say – “I have my horse and my whip. I will kill you and go.”
My own house has one side that is mostly windows – floor to ceiling. Early into the Iraq war, the photos coming out of Iraq reminded me of this – they have all walled in courtyards. Very reminiscent of the Spanish-Mexican style. With good reason. Same source.
We have big windows. I’m grateful to live in a culture that allows me to have them. I wonder how long it will continue…
What I predict is that eventually Obama will be spurned by his grand gestures. He is so inflated with his power to inspire, he thinks he can heal the Arab soul. At that point, like all narcissists, he will become toxically angry and war may follow- an ugly, personal war (what Bush was always accused of doing). He can’t betray Israel in his first term (#2 is another story) or he will lose the support of a substantial number of the 78% of Jews who lemming-like voted for him, but terrorists will welcome the opportunity to humiliate him. I fear a terror strike looming. If Israel elects Netanyahu it will not kowtow, but Obama will be mad at those “stiff-necked” people to be sure. Bad guys don’t stop doing bad things because they are understood or supported but because they are denied the opportunity. Usually this is due to a stronger making non-compliance all but impossible. Presumably if Obama’s kids don’t do their chores (if they have any), he doesn’t enforce the rules, he tried to understand them and then sends them to a therapist. I think Obama is a morally confused appeaser. That being said, I think if he feels his overtures have been rejected, he could be quite unpacifist. But by then, it will be with a very high price.
To 1Lulu, #16
After Obama is spurned by the Arabs: “Those aren’t the Arabs I used to know…”
gpc31: After Obama is spurned by the Arabs: “Those aren’t the Arabs I used to know…”
Great line!
After all, if he can throw Wright et al under the bus, he can end up doing it to the Muslims who interpret his “peaceful” gestures for weakness.
I’m with 1Lulu in my concern that Obama could narcissistically overreact if the Arabs do not succumb to his charm.
I do not say this to be snarky, but Obama does not know how to be a man. He never had a father and his mother was a quirky sort, incapable of living in reality. His grandparents may have exerted some direction and discipline, but it’s hard for an old man to model masculine behavior in the quite the same way as a father in the prime of his life.
Add to that the fact that Obama is surrounded by many other failed men, in the sense of an effeteness and contempt for real men like Ronald Reagan, or Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman—men who displayed a type of political courage that these geldings totally lack.
These are mama’s boys who are going to pay back all of the people in their lives who’ve ever made them look bad or feel unworthy: the entrepreneurs, the soldiers, the Thomas Sowells, the Rush Limbaughs, the Republicans, the Catholic Church and every good-looking conservative girl who ever laughed them out of bed.
That’s assuming they ever get to the bed alive.
Charles, I love your writing!
LuLu – I, too, have been wondering what will happen when Obama runs up against a brick wall.
Obama has had a very charmed life. What opposition did he face in Chicago? None.
Then there was his campaign in which all he had to do was forgo substance and turn on the charm and half of America (and virtually all of the media) swooned and assured him and each other that he was the most intelligent person ever. (And did you read what Dee Dee Myers wrote in Vanity Fair? An essay titled “Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever.” Move over, Jesus!)
Half of America honestly believes that Obama just has to snap his fingers and “pouf!” Gitmo gets closed, ethics are instantly restored, and America’s economy is fixed.
At some point, though, he’s going to run into folks who don’t swoon. There are people who really don’t care how cool he is or how charming his smile and suave words are. How is he going to handle that?
Obama is clearly a man who does not handle embarrassment well. I think that Iran, Russia, Syria, North Korea, and who knows who else would dearly, dearly love to humiliate America and wouldn’t hesitate to do so, even with The One at the helm.
How would he react? I don’t know. But I don’t have confidence in the man. He appears to believe that he is exuding confidence and strength – he doesn’t seem to have any idea that others might be reading him quite differently.
I’m afraid many Americans are mistaking the vultures for doves.
Deana
Good one, Y!
Deana:
Back at you regarding your writing. You are an ace.
I caught a chilling glimpse of Obama on TV tonight as the spouse and I were channeling through to House Hunters or whatever. It was a shot of Obama just walking through a corridor on his way to somewhere. There was a smirky arrogance so evident on his face that I was wondering if even the dunces in the mainstream media could see it.
This man is going to be a disaster for us.
There was a smirky arrogance so evident on his face that I was wondering if even the dunces in the mainstream media could see it.
It wouldn’t look anything different from what the media sees in their mirrors, so why would they “see it”?
Charles, what if your wife thinks israel is a mistake and that US military support of Israel continues the “cycle of violence” there?
Ymarsakar, never. My wife knows at her core that Israel is a non-negotiable item.
She has no doubts whatsoever about Israel’s right to exist. And because I have always been a stalwart and staunch supporter of Judaism and Jews (as irritating as their New York versions can be), she knows that I’m not fooling around when I say Israel is in mortal danger.
The disturbing thing is the absolute refusal to see what we are dealing with…the insistence on viewing those who are motivated by religious fanatacism, fantasies of unlimited power, and a nihilistic love of violence as if they are American politicians or businessmen who can be bought off by economics. As Ralph Peters said:
“One of the most consistently disheartening experiences an adult can have today is to listen to the endless attempts by our intellectuals and intelligence professionals to explain religious terrorism in clinical terms, assigning rational motives to men who have moved irrevocably beyond reason. We suffer under layers of intellectual asymmetries that hinder us from an intuititive recognition of our enemies.”
We’ve been here before. Paul Reynaud, who became Prime Minister of France just prior to the German attack of 1940:
“People think Hitler is like Kaiser Wilhelm. The old gentleman only wanted to take Alsace-Lorraine from us. But Hitler is Genghis Khan.” (approximate quote)
>>“One of the most consistently disheartening experiences an adult can have today is to listen to the endless attempts by our intellectuals and intelligence professionals to explain religious terrorism in clinical terms, assigning rational motives to men who have moved irrevocably beyond reason…>>
I think that the problem is that just as “it takes a thief to catch a thief”, it takes a man of religion to understand a man of religion. That’s why Clinton didn’t see the muslims for what they are and why Bush does/did.
Religion is a matter of faith, not reason. Reason may begin with faith and derive many truths, but the underlying principle is simply not one of reason, but one of faith. In the Catholic church, we consider faith to be a gift from God – that is, one cannot “try” to believe – you either do or you don’t. It helps to grow up in the belief and have never had any reason not to believe. Muslims are surrounded by their faith from the day they’re born. They’re told that if they cease to believe, the penalty is death, and the only _certain_ path to an afterlife in the garden of allah is by dying for their faith – it’s that important that they should believe. What choice do they have?
Until Libs understand that – and it may be beyond their ability to understand – they won’t understand islam for what it is.
Bookworm, in this post and, in “What I learned from HBO about the US Marines” has laid out the pieces of the ‘conundrum’ of liberal denial regarding existential threats.
It also seems to me that many of the comments here get close to it as well. (I have taken the liberty to carefully alter a few of your words so as to grammatically enhance the concepts.)
“The disturbing thing is the absolute refusal to see what we are dealing with… As Ralph Peters said: “One of the most consistently disheartening experiences an adult can have today is to listen to the endless attempts by our intellectuals …assigning rational motives to men who have moved irrevocably beyond reason. We suffer under layers of intellectual asymmetries that hinder us from an intuitive recognition of our enemies.” David Foster
“It is the “anti-anti’s” so common among the intelligentsia that drive me crazy. gpc31
“Add …intellectual pride. Talk-em-to-death plus surrender.” suek
“The “anti-anti” crowd fail to ask or research this question: “Who do you think these people are?” Part of this is hubris. They believe that if they make nice with these thugs, that the thugs will change.” Gringo
The level of psychological denial and obtuseness that the liberal intelligentsia exhibit is intentional, though subconscious in nature. This denial springs from simple cowardice. ‘Moral’ cowardice at heart springs from physical cowardice, for without actual consequence, there is nothing for the intellectual or moral coward to fear.
It’s a cliché that intellectuals often have contempt for the ‘man of action’. Those who do rather than merely opine. That is because taking action, actually doing something, means participating in reality and, a primary component of reality is ‘physical’ consequence. For every action there is an equal reaction. It’s quite real, something actually happens… intellectual’s ‘contempt’ is ‘displacement’ for feelings of insecurity and inadequacy.
Naturally, not all intellectuals are cowards but all cowards ‘excuse’ their cowardice by rationalizing it…and an intellectual who is not a coward, will find it within themselves to pick up the sword of action when circumstance requires it.
When confronted with an actual existential danger such as Islamic terrorism; a fanatic, religious based insanity seeking world-domination so as to avoid their inability to function in the reality of a fast approaching 21st century… only one of two categories of response are possible; fight or flight.
People are not really so complicated when it comes to their motivations. They must choose either the response to danger of the horse or lion. gpc31 is indeed right, It’s cowardice as manifested by displacement. … The reality of Islamic terrorism is too scary to confront directly”
Charles Martel also had it exactly right when he said, “Obama [and liberals] does not know how to be a man. Obama (has surrounded himself with)…failed men, in the sense of an effeteness and contempt for real men …men who display …courage, that these geldings totally lack. These are mama’s boys who are going to pay back all of the people in their lives who’ve ever made them look bad or feel unworthy”
No one of course, can ‘make’ you feel ‘bad or unworthy’ and it’s displacement and intellectual dishonesty with oneself, to place the blame upon others for making us feel bad.
What shall all of this lead too? Again Martel had it right when he said, “I told my wife today in the car that Obama’s next step will be the withdrawal of U.S. support for Israel. She knows I’m not fooling around when I say Israel is in mortal danger.”
And that shall in turn lead to 11B40′s prediction: “we must either destroy the Islamic ideology or the Muslims.” sadly, that is where this is leading us and if we do not…
1Lulu’s feared terrorist strike, in time nuclear in nature will occur and, an American city(s) will disappear and ‘fortress’ America will emerge. An America under near-permanent martial law is one in which our freedoms will start to die and the American ‘experiment’ will start to fade away into history.
All because liberals cannot face up to a simple truth;
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. [Yet] There may even be a [still] worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish, than live as slaves.”- Winston Churchill, “The Gathering Storm.”
You guys are so great. I’ve been AWOL about 48 hours because of external pressures re work and family and, in my absence, brilliance ensues. Thank you so much for your thoughtful, thought-provoking comments. They enrich my life.
You may want to rethink that one, Book.
Through painstaking research I have managed to obtain a copy of Pres. Obama’s letter to Mahmoud.
Dear Mr. Ahmadinijad, or may I call you Mahmoud?,
I write to you as a very important man. I am, as we might say, the most important man. If I wanted, I could have your butt on a platter, but I am not a man of violence, Mr. A. I am a man of words. People swoon for me. Do they swoon for you, Mr. A? No, they do not. You may think you bear a prophetic message. I AM a prophetic message. Soon I will heal the oceans. Hear me.
I say this. You’re gonna lay down that sword and shield- down by the riverside. Down by the riverside. Down by the riverside. You’re gonna lay down those nuclear aspirations, down by the riverside. Dowwwn by the ri-ver-side, and you aint gonna study war no more. (I used aint to be folksy, Mr. A. As a Harvard grad, I certainly know the correct grammar).
I know that I, as the leader of the free world, and you as the leader of the unfree world have much in common. We both dislike the US military. We both question Israel’s legitimacy. But it is all a matter of nuance. Bakshi, Mr. A. Imsha Allah, Mr. A, we will unite our great peoples and work together to make the world a safer and better place ( I say “imsha Allah” not because I have any connection to Islam but because of respect for your culture and traditions).
We here are a land of Christians and Moslems, Hindus and Buddhists, Zoroastrians and Confucionists, Atheists and Agnostics, Greek Orthodox and Episcopalian, 7th Day Adventist and Mormon, Sikh and Quaker, Catholic and Ba-hai, Nature worshiping and uh, Jewish- and we are stronger than you.
Let me warn you now, if you don’t immediately abandon your nuclear work and threats to wipe Israel off the map I’ll be forced to get tough. My ambassador at the UN will make sure that you become unpopular! We’ll make it unpleasant. You’ll see. But we won’t topple you like my pushy Texan, uncouth predecessor did with Saddam Hussein. So don’t worry about that. Even if the people of Iran want you out, we’ll support your right to repress freedoms and imprison and torture your citizens but I really wish you’d stop building weapons of mass destruction. Let’s work together to face a real threat. Let’s go tackle global warming together. Let’s talk. I can be verrry persuasive.
Yours,
Barack
!!!
#31, is that you Iowahawk? Brilliant, brilliant stuff, 1Lulu.
1Lulu –
You nut! I LOVE that!!! Especially the paragraph where he is listing all the religions in a most . . unusual order.
Haa-haa-haaa!!
That’s just fabulous!
Thanks for the laugh.
Deana
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