Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:15:11 PM
Cindy Sheehan was on Sean Hannity yesterday repeating her tired message
of talking to our enemies. Especially people like the Iranians, the
North Koreans, al Quada, etc.
The fact that we *have* been talking to these people sails over her
head. They're not interested in peace. ("Yeah well, if Bush wasn't
saber rattling these people would be talking to us.") Need I remind you
that the present tyranny in Iran began under Carter? North Korea went
nuclear back in 1994 when then President Clinton gave them everything
they needed to build a bomb?
Anyway, we have been talking to these people...for a long, long time.
Despite all of our talking these people continue to make threats and
oppress everyone who gets in their way. North Korea and Iran are both
trying to make nuclear weapons. Peaceniks demanding disarming the west
are among some of the greatest supporters of tyrannical states going
nuclear. The Russians (who publically demand the world talk to Iran) is
supplying the Iranians with radioactive materials. Just last week, they
sold missiles to Tehran. Another state, Germany is doing something
similiar to the Russians: they sold enrichment materials to the
Islamists in Iran.
I'll say it again: Iran is not interested in peace. If they were, they
wouldn't back the terrorist organization of Hezbollah, an organization
that attempts to kill everyone that it disagrees with be they civilian
or soldier, be they man, woman or child. (It's not just the United
States that's declared them a terrorist organization either - so has
Canada and the Netherlands.)
So with all of this in mind, I want to issue the following challenge to
the left: So sure you can make a lasting peace with people who disagree
with you, then prove it - convince me that you're right. It should be
pretty easy. I'm not sponsoring terrorist groups, trying to build
nuclear weapons and making threats against my geographic neighbors.
("But you're totally irrational. We can never convince you.") So you
admit that there are people who are completely unreasonable and you
expect to talk the Iranians in to peace? If you really think you can
talk your way to peace at the world level, surely you can sell me on
your way of doing it. Should be pretty easy. But I'll tell you know,
when you begin trashing the United States, talking down to me, calling
me greedy and decadent might score you lots of points when talking to
hate filled Islamofascists, but it isn't going to curry any favor with
me.