He went on to say that if New York disappeared, it would not adversely affect his or his family’s life. And the spooky part is, he’s right. The Islamoterrorists won’t be targeting places like Des Moines, Tulsa, Jacksonville or Portland. It will be the big coastal cities, where most of the anti-American BDS suffers live.

Hopefully this won’t happen, but if it does, there would be a certain Homeric justice to it…

Here’s a very interesting passage by Daniel Mannix, an American naval officer, about an experience he had in 1921. Sounds quite contemporary.

I believe that the Muslims hate each other as much as they hate the Great and Little Satan. For our Iranian nutjob to become the next great leader is a bit far-fetched…He is a local phenomenon…unfortunately local to Israel.

I’ve been reading auto and biographies of various US and English WWII personalities recently…Bradley, Patton, Ike, Monty, and several others.

I am amazed at the amount of anti-war and isolationist feeling in the US in the 30s…it dwarfs anything I saw in the 70s. Leftists and appeasers abound…and this among the greatest generation.

Things haven’t changed much. And they won’t change unless Iran does something really, really, stupid.

Leave it to England, France, and Germany, as at least the first two are UNSC permanent members, and all three are in the more immediate line of fire of any attempts by Iran to use any possible weapons that might come into existence.

Meanwhile, all the talk of “wiping off the face of the earth” can procede in blissful ignorance. I mean, these fission devices are big, but are hardly nation killers. It would take at least dozens to come close to nation killing results.

So the Shia Iran should proceed carefully when they take the advice of the Sunnis in Pakistan to target Israel if attack “by anyone.” Iran is setting itself up for the biggest “sucker punch” in history (i.e. Sunnis secretly “attack” Iran, Iran attacks Israel, the Israelis return the favor, the Sunnis have obliterated large portions both the Jews and the heretic Shia).

Aside from wondering if the England, France, and Germany feel slighted for not getting their own letters, I wonder about this:

A few weeks ago, I remember reading an article from a Jewish publication out of Israel that quoted some high level offical as saying that Iran poses an existential threat for Israel.

Now you really can’t get more stark than that.

I also remember reading an article where a high-ranking Israeli official stated that the U.S. should be the one that acts militarily to nix Iran’s threat.

Huh?

Israel is fully capable of defending herself.

Iran needs an ultimatum, and it should come from Israel.

What I hope is that Bush has given Israel the okay to do whatever it deems necessary, with the emphasis on whatever.

I just don’t know if Israel has the moral unity and courage to do what they need to to ensure their survival.

If they are going to rely on the U.S. to save them, than they are as good as dead, intellectually, if not physically yet.

Your mistake is that you expect the Bush critics to be consistent. If Bush tries multilateral approaches, they will demand unilateral talks. If Bush tries unilateral approaches they will call him a cowboy who is trying to undercut the U.N. They will even suggest Multilateral and unilateral at the same time. And the Iranians know that they will particpate, walk away, particpate. walk away, participate, walk away in an endless loop. U.N. IAEA, E.U.,whatever method is used and the critics will never say, “Hmmm, maybe Iran simply wants their bombs and no matter what form of negotiations we use they will always walk away until they get the bomb. Naah, the Mullahs are basically good and reasonable people, it must be how we are talking to them, they really have no desire to join the nuclear club, what they say and do isn’t a accurate view of what they want, what we fantasize is what they want to do.” Escape reality through delusion, it’s almost as good as mind altering drugs.

and from Paul Reynaud, who became Prime Minister of France just before the German invasion 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)

Unfortunately GWB`s gross ineptitude and incompetence in stating America`s case and in defending her actions to the American people and to the world has helped lead to this no-win situation. If Bush ignores the letter the Left will claim that it is because he is not interested in peace; if he accepts the offer for negotiations their pre-ordained failure will be Bush`s fault because he was too inflexible; he was not really interested in peace. The letter provides a perfect vehicle in which the U.S. can be blamed for any future Iranian aggression.