Sunday, September 03, 2006

When a sanction is... not a sanction!

In a humorous, yet accurate, article in the New York Times, Helene Cooper, September 3, 2006, "A Deadline That's is less Than It Seems", [see also the post "EU has now a deadline for the mullahs? It’s tomorrow! No wait, maybe next month…", July 4] ridicules the western nations' effort, including that of the United States, to bring the mullahs in front of the UNSC (again) for punishment- at least initially in the form of sanctions. She finds the idiotic posturing by the EU to give Iran another two weeks beyond the August 31, 2006 deadline- just passed- to, we suppose, coincide with the beginning of the UN General Assembly annual love fest, quite formulatory and posits three questions: 1) with the US unitaleral sanctions against Iran in place, just how much staying power or influence would the US have at the UN?, 2) what sanctions could the rest of the SC or the world bring against the mullahs that would not hurt them more than they would hurt the mullahs?, and 3) if the mullahs feel that nuclear weapons are their "inalienable right", would they be even hurt by such "smart sanctions" as travel bans, or care?

Here's what ails the whole process: by not understanding the true nature of Islamic fundamentalism, even after Iraq and Lebanon, and not realizing the essential fact that the only people or group capable of bringing down the illegitimate regime of the mullahs are the Iranian poeple, the United States and the rest of the so-called enlightened world, have engaged in theatrical posturings, intended more to satisfy their own sense of urgency that anything that would seriously hurt the Iranian regime. The enlightened world, is not helped, of course, by the preposterous fakes, such as Bernard Lewis of Princeton, whose dry and falsely academic understanding of what Islamic fundamentalism is, and in how to separate the messianical aims of the Sunni fundamentalism from the Iranian mullahs's version, a far more serious and deadly one.

"...the Holocaust is a scientific issue"

The above quote that is also the title of this post is from Hamid Reza Asefi, the mullahs' Foreign Ministery spokesperson (AP, September 3, 2006). It is no wonder that the mullahs consider the slaughter of six million people in the hands of another fundamentalist regime, merely a scientific issue, which should be debated among "scholars". It is because of their utter disregard for the fate and fortunes of their countrymen, whether it is in the form of street punishment or humiliation- much the same way the Hitler shock troops did-, or in the form of torture, rape, summary trials and executions- much the same way the mullahs's president, Ahmadi-nejad is famous for-, that such claims are made.

It is because that to prepare a woman, who has not yet lost her viginity, for execution, that a religious decree or fatwa, still in effect, can be used to forcefully "marry" her to a prison henchman, that the mullahs would and do claim that the Holocaust did not happen or is open to "scientific" interpretation.