Monday, September 06, 2010

Time for a Lesson in Nuance?

I have two questions regarding this statement by that lounge lizard in charge of Iran:

"Any offensive against Iran means the annihilation of the Zionist entity," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a visit to the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. "Iran does not care much about this entity because it is on its way to decay."

One, how would Iran carry out that annihilation if it doesn't get nuclear weapons?

And two, shouldn't someone in the sainted international community's so-called human rights industry school Ahmadinejad on the subtleties of "proportionality" in responding to military attacks?

I mean, isn't that the key concept in understanding why Israel's response to terrorism attacks is always wrong and most likely a war crime? How does murdering millions in response to the death of hundreds or even thousands qualify as proportional?

Or is that only a concept that applies to Israel?

No. No. No need to answer. I said I had but two questions.