I’m a little behind the curve on this one, but I think this video warrants repeating. The UN has done nothing to stop genocide, to decry despots, to stop rape and torture. I know it would surprise Rosie, but while she hangs from the sack of Iran, she forgets that Iran hangs people for being homosexual, and as many dirty looks as she might get from those intolerant on the right, she has her life. I’m glad to see someone out there standing up to real tyrants, the ones in suits whose governments pillage and rape (literally and figuratively) people in their own country with unquestioned impunity (with much thanks to the “worldly elite” who support a world community, but not world trade). Silence from the lackeys of the despots…that is unless they’re bad mouthing Israel or the US. The fact Israel is the only true democracy in the middle east seems to have led to a bulls-eye on their back for the racist cowards who run the US Tax Payer funded U.N. Human rights council.
“Hugo Chavez abused the privilege that he had, speaking at the United Nations, he demeaned himself and he demeaned Venezuela.”
As admirable as this is…it’s also confusing. Here’s what Rangel had to say as is being reported on Drudge.
“You do not come into my country, my congressional district, and you do not condemn my president. If there is any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not. I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president, do not come to the United States and think because we have problems with our president that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our Chief of State.”
Honestly Mr. Rangel, I think most of the left is cheering right along with Chavez…why, it’s “Truth to Power” isn’t it? This is the same Chavez that the Hero of the left, Cindy Sheeeeeeehan praised and praised?
Sheehan made things perfectly clear this evening, flatly stating that she’d rather live under Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez than George Bush.
This is where to confusion is. Every contact Chavez has with those people who are considered Democratic leaders confirms that what he’s saying is okay for him to say publicly and repeatedly. This has to come a serious shock to him, and while I admire the fact Pelosi and Rangel came to the defense of the office of the executive, their consistency is lacking.
When Chavez was at the UN the other day, he carried Noam Chomsky’s book like it was the bible and he was at camp. Everything those on the left in America say and do affirms his belief that he can say what he wants, where he wants, when he wants. I’m surprised the he didn’t bring us the “Little Goat” that we see in all the propaganda films…
But…my brother breaks it down to it’s simplest form.
“When I played basketball in high school, I didn’t like everyone I was on the team with, but if another team talked smack when we were playing, I defended my team first. Oh yeah, and if you’re going to quote me, add that liberal’s still suck.”
One of the differences between Sunni and Shi’ite Islam is that the latter, who dominate Iran and form the majority in Iraq, believe that Allah shielded or hid Muhammad al-Mahdi as the Twelfth Imam until the end of time. Shi’ites expect the Twelfth Imam, which Jews and Christians would recognize as a messianic figure, to return to save the world when it had descended into chaos. Shi’ite orthodoxy has it that humans are powerless to encourage the Twelfth Imam to return. However, in Iran a group called the Hojjatieh believe that humans can stir up chaos to encourage him to return. Ayatollah Khomeini banned the group in the early 1980s because they rejected one of the primary commitments of the Iranian revolution: the concept of Vilayat-i Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist). In other words, they opposed the notion of an Islamic republic because it would hinder the Twelfth Imam’s return on account of it being too just and peaceful.
Ack…hinder his return because “too just and peaceful”. While Christianity may have their kooks…I don’t see Bush saying in a public setting he wants such chaos…though liberal theories certainly have their own arena surrounding such debate. Thanks to Hugh Hewitt for the quick quote, and the summary of Ahmadinejad had to say in front of the entire world an the UN today.
“I am emphatically declare that today’s world more than ever before longs for just and righteous people with love for all humanity, and above all longs for the perfect, righteous human being and the real savior who has been promised to all peoples and who will establish justice, peace and brotherhood on the planet. [The Twelfth Imam] Oh Almighty God, all men and women are your creatures and you have ordained their guidance and salvation. Bestow upon humanity that thirst for justice, the perfect human being promised to all by you, and make us among his followers among those who strive for his return and his cause.”
Given…Christians pray…Atheists even pray when they gamble…but I think we just hit a new plateau here.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – U.S. and European officials appeared ready Thursday to push for low-level sanctions against Iran, like travel bans, as the country remained defiant on the day of a U.N. deadline to halt uranium enrichment.
The problem with the UN negotiating anything (regardless of whether or not you agree with what they’re negotiating over) is the have very little “or else” power. Whether is be historically due to their failuresaround the world, or their generally propensity towards pacifism, they have very little success with regard to tyrants and killers.
People in general are under the impression that everyone can be negotiated and reasoned with. The truth is some world leaders really are the intellectual equivalent of a cranky four year old. The “I want I want I want”, followed by the kicking and screaming temper tantrums appeased by the fawning parent who feels that discipline is immoral. Look, there is a place for countries like the United States in the world, and it’s the “you wait until your father comes home” place. We are the ones who lecture about how to do it right, about economics, about education, about the future.
We’ve seen how children behave around parents who won’t even raise their voice; the little terror that runs up and down the aisles knocking over cereal boxes as the mother shrugs “boys will be boys”. America needs to be that parent, the feared one, who grabs the kid by the wrist, smacks them, drags them to the owner of the store, makes them apologize, embarasses them in front of thier friends, grounds them for a week, and then watches while they put every box back on the shelf. Yes, it does cost us money…but it’s worth it. We’ll be here as these fledgling democracies graduate, watching approvingly, even though at that point the “school system” will get the credit anyways…not the parents who forced them to study, behave, and do their homework.
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