Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is making the rounds in the US this week, invited to speak at various venues by the UN-sponsored Alliance of Civilizations (for a slightly different view of this organization, check out FrontPageMag’s article).
as an aside, I have *no* idea why the State Department granted this guy a visitor visa.
Anyhow, Khatami sounds like some on the far left in this country, blaming the US for terrorism around the globe:
“As America claims to be fighting terrorism, it implements policies that cause the intensification of terrorism and institutionalized violence,” Khatami said at the Islamic Society of North America’s 43rd annual convention.
He then, of course, qualifies his statement by saying that Americans can help out the situation by lobbying the government and forming consensus with other Americans.
wait….he said American MUSLIMS can do this:
…American Muslims “through active participation in the social arena” can form lobbying groups and form a consensus with other Americans.
He also said:
“Public opinion can be rescued from the grips of ignorance and blunder and the domination of arrogant, warmongering and violence-triggering policies will end,” he said.
Now that’s entertainment! Iran’s former president lecturing the US on being an arrogant, warmongering and violence-triggering society. What was it again that Iran says they want to do to Israel?
To finish up, blaming the US for much (or any) of the current terrorism that plagues the world is like blaming Bush for global warming (which the left does, anyhow). US foreign policy has had little to do with causing terrorism or terrorist activities throughout history. Whether isolationist, as we were back in the 20′s and 30′s and watching Europe descend into the political terrorism hell of the National Socialist party of Germany (which affected us), in the heart of the cold war and facing ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Brigades and the Red Army faction (which affected us) or in the more recent years, having to fight religion-based terrorism on every continent around the world (which affects us), terrorism exists, regardless of what the US does. Fighting it – eradicating it – killing it at its source is the only way to ensure it does not end up on our doorstep.
Unless you are Ned Lamont. Then you can negotiate with your enemies.
hat tip to Laurie for the headline alert.
“policies that cause the intensification of terrorism and institutionalized violence”
hmmm….like…. DEMOCRACY, maybe??
Having him in the USofA just says how much our country’s sense of patriotism, and our belief, like Lincoln’s, that America is the last best hope has withered away. We deserve everything that these b*****ds have done to us, and are going to do to us, because we have allowed our country to completely lose focus in our education system. Ask a child today who was Paul Revere, or Nathan Hale; or what was the Emancipation Proclamation; or who was the defense attorney of the Redcoats following the Boston Massacre, or even who we defeated in WWII and you would be highly unlikely to get a correct answer. We are dumb, we watch sports till we are fat and lazy, we don’t live authentic Christian lives, we don’t honor the soldier statesman and our political leaders run the gambit from thieves, thugs, liers and self-centered egotistical bums. God help us.
He certainly has the Democrats’ Talking Points memorized!
Brilliant tactic… mobilize a segment of your enemy’s population for, at the very least, passive resistance. And do it while academics and media in your enemy country fawn over your presence.
These guys are very good.
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