Quote: (02-05-2012 03:12 PM)kosko Wrote:
Of course you throw in the H bomb to sure up your weak arguments. Your shooting air balls bro.
If only we could believe in the best intentions of other countries. Unfortunately, Iran is not a responsible international actor.
There can be no other country as determined to whitewash the crimes of Nazi Germany as Iran. The depth of Iranian Holocaust rejection is clear. President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied the Holocaust, calling it a "big lie" in August of last year. There is apparent consensus on the issue in the higher echelons of the Iranian leadership. Ahmadinejad used a trip to Germany (where Holocaust denial is a crime) in 2007 to pointedly announce that he "cannot confirm or deny" the Holocaust. Infamously, in December 2006, the Iranian regime arranged an academic smoke-screen for deniers, organizing a conference "to review the global vision of the Holocaust."
On the face of it, Iran's Holocaust obsession makes little sense, given that it is a county both untouched and untainted by the horrors of Hitler. Yet, it should be a wake-up call to those who would give Iran a free pass. By denying that the darkest chapter in human history ever happened, Ahmadinejad and his cronies understand that they are leaving a chink of light for such depravity to return.
This is exactly why Iranian vows to destroy Israel are so deeply worrying. Supreme Leader Khamenei declared in 2010 that "Israel is a cancerous tumour," which must be "cut out," while at the same time, Defense Minister Vahidi referred to the "Zionist regime" and "the countdown to its extinction."
I think this should give pause to anyone who claims that the West and Iran are on the same moral level. When people believe that a quazi sharia Islamic regime and liberal democracy are on the same moral level (aka if we have nukes why can't they get them?)...then we are truly lost. Perhaps seeing how bad this can get is the only way to shock people into realizing that evil still exists in the world.