Doug Ross @ Journal

Iran and the Bomb: Visions and Lies

As the Democratic Party expends its limited energies attacking George Bush through proxies (e.g., John Roberts, Michael Cherthoff, and Katrina), Iran's mullahs are busily assembling nuclear weapons. Biding time and manipulating the ineffectual leaders of France and Germany -- while utterly ignoring the U.N. -- Iran's leaders should be setting off the alarm claxons.

But the not-so-loyal-opposition represented by the Democratic leadership can't be bothered with a nuclear-armed Iran. They've got to ensure John Roberts doesn't make Chief Justice! So while Condoleeza Rice makes her case for pressing Iran through the Security Council, virtually no words of encouragement can be heard from the Democratic leadership.

We've been down this road before. When Hitler wrote Mein Kampf , his vision for a totalitarian third Reich was crystal clear. The same sort of vision has been expressed by Iran's 'President', Mahmood Ahmadinejad. It's all there for anyone to see, if they can be bothered taking the time to read. Just don't tell the Democratic leadership. Kennedy, Feinstein and Boxer have more important things to do.

Hitler's blitzkrieg war upon first western, then central and eastern Europe came as a surprise to those who thought diplomacy and appeasement had triumphed. But as anyone could have seen, even decades before the war had started, Hitler's true aim, his real vision for the destiny of the German Volk, was not in peaceful coexistence with their neighbors, but in a violent expansionism; especially to the east, into the fertile fields of Russia. It was all there, in Mein Kampf , for all to see. Right from the start. That is the thing with megalomaniacal, totalitarian leaders. They almost universally believe themselves to be chosen men, destinied to lead their people on a grand quest toward eternal glory. And try though they might to be subtle, to be discrete, to conceal their plans from unhelpful scrutiny, they are just so utterly wrapped up in their own magnificent cleverness that they can't help but reveal their master plan beforehand. I am now talking about the Iranian leader, President Mahmood Ahmadinejad. Like Hitler, he has made many entreaties to the west, using every trick in the fascist handbook in order to buy time. He knows that in dealing primarily with today's France and Germany, he is dealing with the same kind of weak, vaccilating liberal leadership Hitler had to contend with in France and Britain of the 1940s. He has little to fear from them, or their feeble UN motions that lead nowhere. However, in those seldom instances when it does look as though something solid might actually be brought against Iran before the UN Security Council, what do the Iranians do? They suddenly make concessions. Concessions which draw out the negotiations. Negotiations change to a sick, embarrassing game, as Iran first feigns cooperation, then suddenly switches to making ridiculous, impossible demands of the EU and the UN's toothless nuclear watchdog, the IAEA. Eventually, the entire process begins again. No inspections have taken place. Nothing has been achieved, except by Iran. In that time, months have elapsed. Months you can be sure the Iranians have put to excellent use in their uranium enrichment plant near Isfahan. But if Ahmadinejad was like Hitler only in terms of his ability to stall, there would be little comparison to be drawn at all. The trouble is, he's also very much like Hitler in the sense that he believes himself to be a man of destiny, out to win a glorious triumph for his Volk (or the Ummah - whichever you prefer.) Happily for us, he also suffers from Hitler's appalling inability to keep quiet about his own brilliance: In the first such statement by an Iranian president in nearly 20 years, Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election would mark what he termed a new Islamic revolution. Ahmadinejad said such a revolution would spread throughout the world. "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world," Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency as saying. "The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end." Like Hitler's references to the valiant eastward destiny of Aryan man, Ahmadinejad's words here can only be construed as alluding to the precise opposite of every diplomatic gesture he has made, especially his declarations in regard to nuclear weapons...

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