What do you suppose the newly-minted Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama will say about this...anything?
'Iran will blow up the heart of Israel'
Cleric Mojtaba Zolnour, who is the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative in the Guard, said that if a US or Israeli missile lands in Iran, Iranian missiles will hit Israel in retaliation.
"Should a single American or Zionist missile land in our country, before the dust settles, Iranian missiles will blow up the heart of Israel," Zolnour was quoted as saying by the state IRNA news agency.
Bonus Crazy™ (Hat Tip: Killian Bundy):
Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood; President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.
Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".
The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.
We already know where 0bama will stand if the political winds shift, don't we?
ReplyDeleteLooks like they didn't get that whole "the world now has hope for peace" memo.
ReplyDeleteI know next to nothing about weaponry, but I am pretty sure we could obliterate Tehran before they could put their pants on and toddle over to the big red button.
ReplyDeleteBunch of F'n RACISTS in this joint!
ReplyDeleteRelax people Obama won the Peace Prize!
It's all Rainbows and Unicorns from now on!
Obama will say nothing.....that's why they gave him the Nobel Peace Prize.
ReplyDelete@Pink: I still keep hoping against hopes that he'll be "mugged by reality". Am not holding my breath though.
ReplyDeleteGreat ACORN stuff you posted on the previous thread
It's all Rainbows and Unicorns from now on!
ReplyDelete*fart*
doppel,
ReplyDeleteIran can reach Isreal with their Shitzpantz III missile, but right now it will be a replay of the SCUDS of GWI.
They appear to have the U-235 and data for a bomb, but so far no way to put it on a missile.
the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice
ReplyDeleteI've seen "educational" posters to that effect in the office of a young Muslim woman. Sharia makes women MORE free, doncha see, because they are, um, separate, but unequal, or something like that.
The "Friend of Israel" hand graphic... I'll bet Ahmadinejad has nightmares about exactly that same hand appearing above him in the sky, forming a fist, and descending swiftly towards him.
ReplyDeleteThanks, F2. I won't comment on what I think of 0bama's perception of reality.
ReplyDeleteThe "Friend of Israel" hand graphic... I'll bet Ahmadinejad has nightmares about exactly that same hand appearing above him in the sky, forming a fist, and descending swiftly towards him.
ReplyDeleteOne can only hope.
OR,
ReplyDeleteWar is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Later.
ReplyDeleteWith North Korean missile technology, and G-d's help, the missiles will hit Damascus and similar places when they launch them at Israel.
ReplyDeleteJohn Derbyshire at NRO links to a story about a giant white blimp hovering over Kandahar.
ReplyDelete"Many people believe it's a spy blimp that can see through walls to look at our women," said Ghulam Ghami, a local fixer attuned to the buzz in coffee shops and kebab stands.
Project much?
JCM
ReplyDeleteSo Iran's threat is, for the moment, empty?
sb5k: Carl in Jersusalem (who will be managing the Friends of Israel forum on C2) had a story up not too long ago about a jet that crashed in Iran in a particularly inconvenient place, as I recall...if I can find it, I'll link it here.
ReplyDeleteIt could happen!
"Sharia associated with gender justice"? Did somebody spike her water glass with "acid"?
ReplyDeleteI'm developing a vision problem. Y'all have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteCC, yes, Iran's one and only AWACS equivalent plane crashed during a show. They'd have to replace the aircraft and the crew, including specialized training.
ReplyDeleteThis will make it harder to defend themselves from an air attack.
Reading through various reports on the Wee Won's "prize" one thing that became apparent was the way in which American isolationism is confused with "peace." It the sort of thinking that dominated in the 1920s and 30s -- the Kellogg-Briand pact; the various disarmament conferences; ultimately the US standing by and watching the expansionism of Japan, Germany, and Italy in the decade leading up to WWII.
ReplyDeleteThere was a book that came out some years ago called "How War Came," dealing with the immediate origins of WWII -- it goes from the end of the Munich conference to September 1, 1939. One thing that was both fascinating and disturbing was how totally uninvolved the US was. Our intelligence gathering capability was practically nil, and the few individuals in the foreign service who did recognize the German threat were largely ignored or shut out of the loop. Roosevelt sent Joe Kennedy, a vicious anti-Semite and Anglophobe as his Ambassador to the Court of St. James, effectively squashing any opportunity for the US and Britain to work together. At home, high profile figures such as Charles Lindbergh and other assored useful idiots were arguing that the Nazis couldn't be beaten, weren't all the bad, that the Stalin was a good guy, that Mussolini was a good guy, that whatever happened to those weird Europeans was none of our business etc.
The result: we were caught totally flatfooted in 1939. A war that claimed something like 50 million lives was avoidable, but we did nothing to prevent it. And why? Because the dominant voice at home was that which said "if we are at peace, the world is at peace, and if we disengage from the world, there will be peace. And if strange little foreign people want to duke it out, that still constitutes 'peace,' at least as far as we're concerned."
It was selfish and short-sighted. And it was more or less the dominant position in the Republican Party until Eisenhower.
Since 1972, it has been the voice of the Democrats. Arguably the world is a more dangerous place now than it was in 1929, and American power is even more necessary for the maintanance of a stable balance of power and to squash the kind of dangerous leaders who have, in the course of the last two centuries, routinely dragged the world into war. In other words, the America-First folk in the thirties might be excused for being naive -- American power was something new, and the total failure of international agreements to maintain peace had not yet been demonstrated. In theory, we're more sophisticated now. But the "sophistication" of the current elites has not made them any wiser; indeed it seems only to have deadened their resolve, blinded them to obvious realities of power, and given them endless means to rationalize and even glorify vacilation and inaction.
I suppose this should come as no surprise from a group of people who seem stuck in "youthful" idealism and adolescent tantrums about authority, justice, and peace. We are governed by psychic teenagers. Not a good thing in times which require the greatest of wisdom and the willingness to make hard decisions and take responsibilitiy for their actions.
The AWACS plane fell on some mullahs tomb, IIRC.
ReplyDeleteCan you hear me now ?
LMAO Squatch
ReplyDeleteHa. I hope some flying pig lands on the Mahdi's well.
ReplyDeleteA local guy just played audio of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement, and the crowd gasped and started sort of humming and buzzing when the speaker named Obama.
ReplyDeleteHow do you say "WTF?" in multiple foreign languages?
Wouldn't this be a good night to open the pub a little early? I am already well into my vodka and diet Sprite (hat tip: redstateredneck). Seriously, I think the whole damn country needs a drink.
ReplyDeleteUfo Tofu said...
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So Iran's threat is, for the moment, empty?
Yes and no.
They have the material and technology to do a 15-30kt gun type bomb, think Little Boy / Hiroshima. It would weigh in at 2 to 5 tons, at best Iran can put 1000 lbs on a missile.
That doesn't mean they can't put it in a container or on a small business jet. And make for a very bad days somewhere.
I expect them to play the current 3 card monte with their nuclear sites as long as possible. When that gig is up, they'll demonstrate their capability out in the desert.
The reaction to such a demonstrations and subsequent demands will be, ahhh, interesting.
OT: we're really in an alternate universe. Photoshops mocking the Nobel Piece Prize are now online at... (drum roll) TIME Magazine.
ReplyDelete(Via Hot Air, who note that left and right blogosphere find themselves largely in agreement for a change. F2 wonders: is that the achievement the NC had in mind?)
@doppelganglander: seconded
ReplyDeleteFinally Free: Your first drink tonight is on me. Those Photoshops are terrific. It's not hard to find pictures of the Messiah with his nose in the air, is it?
ReplyDeleteLucius, excellent commentary as always. This place is great.
ReplyDeleteSaw this quote numerous times today (with various attributions), and it really gave me the shivers.
ReplyDelete"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set." (Lin Yutang).
Great stuff indeed, Lucius
ReplyDeleteLimbaugh to judge 2010 Miss America pageant
ReplyDeleteGreat find, FF. I'll add...
ReplyDelete"A man cannot learn what he thinks he already knows."
Seems appropriate, somehow.
F2 - that used to be the tagline on my profile on a different website.
ReplyDeleteI read it somewhere and instantly thought of Obama.
"Some people say — and I understand it — 'Isn't it premature? Too early?' Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now, It is now that we have the opportunity to respond — all of us."
ReplyDeleteThorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, told the AP.
Second, it's crystal clear to me that it was the Nobel committee's way of issuing a rebuke to the previous administration; a giant F#%! YOU to George W. Bush.
Kari Chisholm, Blue Oregon
Why do Republicans hate America?
:/
ReplyDeleteBrandy's on duty in just a couple of minutes, guys - we'll leave this one open for a bit for anyone who'd like to comment on the news (but people tend to gather more in the pub when it opens).
ReplyDeleteBARE! Herro. You got your eyes off the code for a minute?
ReplyDeletehi! Back! The Sharia thing has bothered me all day. Anyone stop to think she is saying "all's well" to avoid being the RECIPIENT of such "gender justice"?
ReplyDeleteYou alright, big guy ?
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a thermometer hanging out of your mouth.
or a blunt.
I can never tell.
WSJ, via HotAir:
ReplyDeleteThe Norwegians are on to something. In a mere nine months, the President has promulgated a vision for the U.S. role in the world that breaks with both Republican and Democratic predecessors. Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, called America the “indispensable nation” a decade ago. Ronald Reagan called it a “city on the Hill,” an example to the world.
Mr. Obama sees the U.S. differently, as weaker than it was and the rest of the planet as stronger, and so he calls for a humbler America, at best a first among equals, working primarily through the U.N. The world’s challenges, he emphasized yesterday, “can’t be met by any one leader or any one nation.” What this suggests to us—and to the Norwegians—is the end of what has been called “American exceptionalism.” This is the view that U.S. values have universal application and should be promoted without apology, and defended with military force when necessary.
Nothing says "gender justice" like burkas, wife beating & FGM.
ReplyDeleteThey may think that giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a profoundly unqualified recipient is a "giant f*ck you to George Bush" but in fact it's quite the opposite. It demonstrates, as if it needed be, that the prevailing Leftist Western mindset had no idea what "peace" means, let alone what it costs. Peace is not something awarded to a posturing dilettante by a panel of political hacks. Peace is won by the men & women willing to fight for it & willing to die for it.
ReplyDeleteAll these pompous fools at the Nobel Committee were willing to do is "make a statement" expressing the unbounded depths of their gullibility.
This award is nothing more or less than a manifestation of the tendency of certain politically correct drones to provide the narcissistic supply to America's Pollyanna President.
When it comes down to the fine point, Israel should always keep in mind that only Israel is fully vested in what is best for Israel. The U.S. will be their "sometimes" ally, but will fail them on occasion. May God keep them safe.
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