Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Thomas Sowell points out the criminally negligent folly of Obama's deal with Iran

John "Not-Exactly-Talleyrand" Kerry, in doing the bidding of his master, the elongated Napoleon, is helping midwife a future disaster. Dr. Sowell explains the fallacy of assuming that other governments share our definition of what is "unthinkable":
It is amazing — indeed, staggering — that so few Americans are talking about what it would mean for the world’s biggest sponsor of international terrorism, Iran, to have nuclear bombs, and to be developing intercontinental missiles that can deliver them far beyond the Middle East.

Back during the years of the nuclear stand-off between the Soviet Union and the United States, contemplating what a nuclear war would be like was called “thinking the unthinkable.” But surely the Nazi Holocaust during World War II should tell us that what is beyond the imagination of decent people is by no means impossible for people who, as Churchill warned of Hitler before the war, had “currents of hatred so intense as to sear the souls of those who swim upon them.”

Have we not already seen that kind of hatred in the Middle East? Have we not seen it in suicide bombings there and in suicide attacks against America by people willing to sacrifice their own lives by flying planes into massive buildings, to vent their unbridled hatred?

6 comments:

smitty1e said...

"Tallywhacker"?

bruce said...

Inshallah Smitty, inshallah.

rinardman said...

Back during the years of the nuclear stand-off between the Soviet Union and the United States, contemplating what a nuclear war would be like was called “thinking the unthinkable.”

MAD doesn't work, when one side is.

rinardman said...

Have we not seen it in suicide bombings there and in suicide attacks against America by people willing to sacrifice their own lives by flying planes into massive buildings, to vent their unbridled hatred?

Nothing a good jobs program won't fix.

JeffS said...

r-man, one side is MAD, and the other side is insane.

I'll leave it to you to decide which label applies to which side.

rinardman said...

Jeff, I was using mad in the insane sense of the word.

Probably too clever by half.