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Ahmadinejad didn't come out like a Soviet leader of yore and scream, "We will bury you," which had commentators in the immediate aftermath of his speech falling over themselves to welcome a "kinder and gentler" Ahmadinejad (that was Wolf Blitzer of CNN).
And indeed, Ahmadinejad didn't say he would wipe Israel off the map or deny the Holocaust.
Evidently we're supposed to grade on a curve now.
No shoe-pounding and omission of genocidal agendas espoused in the past make pretzel-spines like Blitzer swoon, but more hard-headed commentators noted that the demented dwarf claimed Iran was NOT in violation of IAEA norms despite IAEA protests to the contrary. Read The Wall Street Journal this morning to see just how many recent lies the Iranians have submitted to the court of world opinion, which consistently swallows them and then is embarrassed later to have been too credulous.
He offered up a cockamamie scheme for the reorganization of the Security Council - one that would empower voting representatives from various organizations that are run for the convenience of tinpot dictators and thugs, groups like the so-called Non-Aligned Movement and the Union of Islamic Nations.
"Who will speak for the oppressed?" wondered this spokesman for an "Islamic democracy" so corrupt that he was only elected the titular head of his government because vast numbers of possible voters sat out the election in protest.
The notion of an unjust concentration of world power in the hands of Western democracies is an old Leftist conceit, and though Ahmadinejad is the president of a pointedly reactionary religious regime, he sounded very much like a 1970s Leftist - including talk about "imperialism" that was so old I could practically visualize the gas tank of a Ford Pinto blowing up while he was speaking.
And while he insisted that his nation only wants to develop "peaceful" nuclear energy, Ahmadinejad made a point of claiming that the United States dominates world discussion because of its nuclear arsenal. If indeed that is what he believes, then surely a person who wishes the world system to be rebalanced in his own country's favor would find the pursuit of nuclear weaponry an urgent and overwhelming necessity.
This sort of happy horseshit has been emanating from the nether behinds of the cohorts of sleazy dictators for decades, and is standard fare for west-bashing "Southern" or "Non-Aligned" or "Group of 77" coalitions in the UN seeking for a redistribution of wealth, which obviously would never find its way to the people who need it were the West gullible enough to actually fall for such obvious chicanery. Podhoretz contrasts the steaming pile of offal the dildo boy offers with GWB's well-thought out presentation of a reasonable alternative.
George W. Bush has already made it clear in the past month that he will not accept a nuclear Iran, a view that commits him to a military strike should all else fail. And clearly, he chose not to use the U.N. venue to start a countdown or initiate a showdown with Ahmadinejad.
Instead, Bush emulated Ronald Reagan's enormously important and influential 1988 speech at Moscow State University, where the Gipper spoke plainly to the Russian people about democracy and freedom and how they work.
In this case, Bush tried to speak directly to the ordinary folk throughout the Middle East, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Syria and Iran (and also to those suffering through unimaginable horror in Darfur) about what America really believes, really wants and is really trying to do to help them and the world.
For Americans who've been listening closely to Bush in the past six weeks, it was the same old, same old. But maybe for those in the Muslim world able and willing to hear a message of hope, Bush spoke words they will long remember.
I doubt whether Bush's address will be offered on Al-Jazeera, but somehow the ravers in the Muslim mosh-pits have got to distance themselves from the delusions of a crack-pot hallucinating communer with the Hidden Imam and align their minds with a more foreward-looking agenda which combines development and economic growth.
I wonder if the Hitler mini-me from Iran felt that aura or halo around him this year as he did before? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sigmund has a satirical post on just how ridiculous the pint-sized mini-Adolph was yesterday, with a reference to the Anchoress that has to be appreciated also.
Even The Nation is beginning to understand that supporting crazed dictators just because they hate Bush might ultimately redound to Bush's electoral strength in November.
Can the scales be beginning to fall from the purblind ultra-left eyelids?
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