PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

A big hat tip to A Guy In Pajamas for this link to Mark Steyn's article on Iran and its nutcase "President," Ahmadinejad.

I'm also going to further my hat tip to the Pajama guy by using the same quote from the Steyn article which is, indeed, a most potent metaphor:

"You know what's great fun to do if you're on, say, a flight from Chicago to New York and you're getting a little bored? Why not play being President Ahmadinejad? Stand up and yell in a loud voice, "I've got a bomb!" Next thing you know the air marshal will be telling people, "It's OK, folks. Nothing to worry about. He hasn't got a bomb." And then the second marshal would say, "And even if he did have a bomb it's highly unlikely he'd ever use it." And then you threaten to kill the two Jews in row 12 and the stewardess says, "Relax, everyone. That's just a harmless rhetorical flourish." And then a group of passengers in rows 4 to 7 point out, "Yes, but it's entirely reasonable of him to have a bomb given the threatening behavior of the marshals and the cabin crew."

We appeased Saddam Hussein for a decade. We continue to appease Kim Jong Il, and other assorted dictators and ruthless authoritarian creeps and the media and its echoes in entertainment and education continue to suggest that the real war monger in the world is the soft-spoken guy from Texas. The absurdity of our continued docile stance with these guys is bound to result in some eventual horrors beyond the imagination.

We definitely could use a Churchill or a Reagan on this one but all we've got are some committee clowns at the U.N. and the equally placid idealist bureaucrats at America's state department.

What's it going to take to wake the clowns of appeasement from their perpetual nap in left-wing fantasy land?

What about the violent authoritarian's feelings?

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 11:53 PM