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Thursday, September 07, 2006

internationally crazy.

I don't pay attention to international politics for a week and all of a sudden...

WE SHOULD NUKE IRAN
By: MICHAEL COREN

It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world peace.

Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
and then...
Ahmadinejad calls for university purge
POSTED: 2341 GMT (0741 HKT), September 5, 2006

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's hard-line president urged students Tuesday to push for a purge of liberal and secular university teachers, another sign of his determination to strengthen Islamic fundamentalism in the country.
I think it's safe to say that both these men are crazy.

2 comments:

Karen said...

It's beyond me how Coren, an ultra-devote Christian, can rationalise such an idea.

I'd say the man is mad, yes.

Anonymous said...

And "ultra-devote" Chrsitians have been killed and imprisioned in Iraq and Iran with Christian Peacemakers teams, attempting to stop violence. The faith is irrelevent, the ideology is what counts, and Coren is clearly speaking about something he should have kept his mouth shut about.