The Enemy of My Enemy…

Date September 24, 2007 Posted by Amy Hall

This is pathetic.  From Daily Kos:  Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

I know I'm a Jewish lesbian and he'd probably have me killed.  But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon…  Okay, I admit it.  Part of it is that he just looks cuddly.  Possibly cuddly enough to turn me straight.  I think he kind of looks like Kermit the Frog.  Sort of.  With smaller eyes.  But that's not all…

 

I want to be very clear.  There are certainly many things about Ahmadinejad that I abhor — locking up dissidents, executing of gay folks, denying the fact of the Holocaust, potentially adding another dangerous nuclear power to the world and, in general, stifling democracy.  Even still, I can’t help but be turned on by his frank rhetoric calling out the horrors of the Bush Administration and, for that matter, generations of US foreign policy preceding….

This is very interesting.  Whatever reasons or explanations President Bush gives for his actions the left dismisses as false, as they look for the true, deeper motives.  Yet here, the rhetoric is all-important and accepted as genuine.  Never mind that Ahmadinejad actually kills gay people, listen to what he says.  But President Bush?  Everything he says is merely propaganda.

Ahmadinejad, it would appear, cares more about American troops than President Bush….

And now, all of a sudden, you have no ability to see past appearances?

Perhaps the Bush Administration's campaign against Ahmadinejad — just like its campaign against Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and others — isn't as much about whether he's a danger to the world…. I'm not saying he's a good guy at all.  I'm only saying it's hard to know the full story when the Bush Administration seems so invested in smearing Ahmadinejad….

People can be so invested in smearing their foe that we can't trust what they see and say?  I can't imagine how that could happen.  Pot, meet kettle.  And while you're at it, meet Ahmadinejad.

In the quotes she gives from her beloved Ahmadinejad, I particularly like how he says he'll be judged positively compared to Bush by the following criterion:

Did we bring the world peace and security or raised [sic] the specter of intimidation and threats?

This she finds compelling coming from the man who has repeatedly insisted Israel should be “wiped off the map.”  Unbelievable.

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6 Responses to “The Enemy of My Enemy…”

  1. Mike said:

    September 24th, 2007 at 11:22 am

    I hope that she doesn't discover that Bin Laden wants to end global warming, heal the US housing market, and solve the problem of economic inequality (from Slate.com).

  2. hughbiquitous said:

    September 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pm

    You've got to see Tom-in-the-Box's latest bit of satire on this…

    Ahmadinejad Speaks to Unitarian Congregation

    “We realize that President Ahmadinejad has made some statements which could be considered by some to be intolerant” stated Jennings-Hardworth. “Indeed, that might be true. But one must examine his overall demeanor. While Mr. Ahmadinejad is intolerant towards good things, he is also intolerant of those whom we consider intolerant in even more important matters, namely those of the far-right agenda. So we share a common intolerance of unfavorable intolerance and his intolerance of intolerance far out weights, in my opinion, his intolerance of those things tolerable. If there's one thing we cannot tolerate, it is intolerance, unless a greater intolerance exists towards those with even greater intolerance. I think our motives in having him speak, speak for themselves.”

  3. Amy said:

    September 26th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    Everybody, check out a hilarious Harry Potter parody of this horrendous “Crush” article on my sister's blog.

  4. Old Mike said:

    September 27th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    When I was young tolerance meant that even though I might think your view absolute lunacy with no redeeming value whatsoever, I would treat you with respect as a person. Now tolerance means all ideas are of equal value in the marketplace and should be so accepted and if you don't you are intolerant. I still like that earlier definition though I am somewhat hard pressed to treat the author of that quote with the respect my definition demands. Were I to hear such tripe in person, it might unleash a “pre-salvation flashback” which would be really ugly.

  5. afriendnamedben said:

    October 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Just wanted to give a thumbs up on the title there.

  6. PeteAtomic said:

    October 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 am

    The Iranians are a very dangerous element in the ME at the moment. Their influence in Iraq, for instance, may be a precipitator for a regional war with Saudi Arabia, for example.

    However, if we took the Danish or Icelandic view of energy policy (use of non-petroleum resources), there would be little reason for the US to be in the ME at all.

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