2006-09-18
Stanley Crouch vs. Islamic Crusaders
Not sure about the overall footing of this jazz critic and crusader against popular black culture. Does he oppose leveling and simplifying the tax structure ("tax cuts for the rich")? School vouchers not just for colleges, but also for K-12? I don't know. But here he shows that he hates those bastards who want to force humans into slaves of literal islam, and he wants to fight them. He does not regard Iran's president with Nadir's admiration, but rather as a target for US military weapons in a strike for freedom.
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New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
As world naps, Arab leaders must step up
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is running a game that may pay off for him, but at a great cost to the world. Stepping into the short totalitarian line of the greatest monsters of the 20th century, he just called for the expulsion of all professors from Iranian universities who do not submit to the fundamentalist doctrines that underlay the Iranian revolution of 1979. And that's not all.
The most dangerous game is one in which he claims not to be building nuclear weapons, begins discussions about it, withdraws and then asserts that the discussions should resume. All of this is designed to give him and his men more time to work on the weapons program so that he can move to threaten Israel and take center position as the strongest Islamic country in the Middle East.
Ahmadinejad knows who he's addressing. This is a characteristic of our most dangerous opponents. They know what arguments sucker us into comfort or spin off of our various criticisms of capitalist democracies.
The big man in Iran for the moment argues like those balloon heads who see everything as no more than abstract subjects for discussion, as if the world were no more than a civics class for lame brains. He says that the West does not have the right to make smaller countries second-class citizens in the arena of power, which he also asserts is an attempt to keep Islam bound down. Though his claims are that Iran is only building harmless nuclear technology, he really means that mushroom clouds for some should actually give way to mushroom clouds for all.
We are in a predicament because we can almost be sure that Europe will do no more than talk and it would be very hard for America to act against Iran because this nation's forces are spread thin in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The penchant for talk instead of action is something that Adolf Hitler understood during the 1930s because he would meet and talk and promise almost as much as anyone liked, while going about doing exactly what he wanted to do.
Still, the solution to the latest of the world's troubles might actually come from within the Middle East. As a young Palestinian said to me recently, the leaders in the region know that Iran is moving to become the most powerful Islamic state and create a bond with Hezbollah, which is why the other Islamic states laid back during the recent conflict with Israel in Lebanon. They were sending a message to Iran: If you mess around and get attacked, brother, your backside is your own to protect.
If my Palestinian friend is correct, it would mean that we find ourselves at another point in which there may well be an antidote to those endlessly empty and ineffectual conversations that the United Nations is so well known for.
It would be extraordinary if the Arab leadership proved itself much better than Europeans at recognizing a pig in a poke who is trying to pass himself off as a lamb of Islam revolution.
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