Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad?

What more can be said after reading this article? Knowing that president Khatami had offered to normalize relation with US and only to see that his offer was ignored. It is up to the american people to demand from their media to stop printing lies. For american people who have always been blaming the communist media to manipulate the news, it is about time to demand the truth from their own.

But, Bush IS a neoconservative crank!!! And his comments show that he doesn't even understand the real problem. The issue isn't the knowledge to create nukes, that information is all over the internet. The issue is the fissionable material and the equipment to do this. Shame on our president's baby-sitters for sending him into a press conference unprepared to parrot the answers he should have given! Did anyone else notice this?

This is a great article and hopefully more will take this lead in the media. Everybody wants to say that times have changed and Iran is a new threat. Atrocities don't need time limits. Killing millions of people like Stalin, Mao and King Jon II is not too distant away and need a professional dictator with infrastructure to do it. Stinking Ahmadinejad is a joke. Would Stalin and Mao ever answered a question about "homosexuals"? More importantly what is it that makes neocons think they can win in Iran with 70 million population and 3 times the size of Iraq when Iraq is a glaring and most recent example as recent as today. More in media should keep the record straight. What is it, CNN and MSNBC are now bowing to Fox News. Come on have a back bone! stand straight and talk against war and this nonsense comparison of Ahmadinejad to history's strongest dictators. Even Columbia's president said he is a petty dictator.

the stance of america on the iran nuclear issue is quite correct because iran under ahmadnejadi is irresponsible.the threat of the irani president to israel is an open secret.iran should be taken to taske other wise it is dangerous for the entire world. zahir_shah01@yahoo.com

Thank you, Mr. Zakaria. As Rosa Brooks notes in the October 25 issue of the LA Times, Bush and Cheney have not merely gone "over the top" with their war hysteria towards Iran, they have become full-blown psychotics, dangerous madmen who pose a grave and imminent threat to the world. They are far more dangerous than any pocket tyrant like Ahmadinejad or Saddam Hussein. One can see in the comments to this article alone just how extreme the reactions are -- right-wingers calling for more bombings and murder, at least one irate Israel-hater calling for the hanging of Israeli supporters in Times Square. It is madness, pure and simple, and I put the blame squarely at the feet of Bush and (more directly) Cheney. The mindset, encouraged by the Bush administration, is: if someone scares you or makes you feel uncomfortable, kill them right now, before they can frighten you further. It is madness. It must end, right now. The killing must stop, the hate must be countered with rationality and diplomacy and sanity. Now. No more tolerance of the intolerable.

Let???s see. Why does Iran want the bomb? Bush calls them one of the axis of evil. They should be overthrown. He did not want to get into any dialog because of their policies. Doesn???t start talking until they start wanting the bomb. Those being in power don???t want to lose it. They know their military can???t compete with ours. The country next to them is invaded. The only leverage they could get would be to have a bomb. What did you really expect them to do? Invite us over for a campfire, roast some weenies, hold hands and sing ???Kombayah???? Come on. What did you really expect? Reverse the roles and what would you want us to do? Give them something to change their minds. Just saber rattling isn???t going to work. It did not work with North Korea until we offered them something.

Drop a few bombs in Iran and everything will be alright? What do you want to spend for a gallon of gas? Would like to spend $10? We are going to pay for this Iraqi war for many, many years because of this flawed invasion. In bombing Iran we will pay even more. In the 70's if we just found something else to run our cars, we would not be there. Ah, but it was too expensive -- too inconvenient ??? we can???t be bothered. Paying for that now, aren???t we?

And it does not help when the U.S. is run by a bunch of incompetents with a flawed agenda. Unfortunately, we will have to put up these nimrods for another 15 months. They can just run us further into the ditch.

Syderijed:
And you conveniently hide the fact that your dear little spoilt brat Israel has more than 200 nuclear warheads. All paid for by at our US hard-earned tax dollars. It is Israel that is the biggest problem in the world.

I didn't know what to believe after reading this article. Zakaria makes a strong argument and seems to support it with solid facts, but I kept getting the suspicion that he's simplifying the matter too much. Iran is somewhat important, right?

We need to establish an Embassy in Iran, and with that you can use it as a springboard for cultural, economic, and social ties. Those are the things needed to keep incentives to maintain a peace.
Think: In a potential war between the United States and Iran, none of the 30-and-under population in Iran or the U.S. will have ever come in real contact with each other as a result of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, because most of them weren???t even alive then. These same young people would be called upon to bear the brunt of the fighting. An estimated half of Iran???s 70 million population (more than double Iraq???s) is under 30.

We need to establish our Embassy again in Iran. With that, you can use that as a springboard for economic, social, and cultural ties, and therefor negating any reason that leaders would want to go to war. Those are all the incentives needed to maintain the peace rather than suspicioulsly making pretentious judgements and threatening each other.

Think:: In a potential war between the United States and Iran, none of the 30-and-under population in Iran or the U.S. will have ever come in real contact with each other as a result of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, because most of them weren???t even alive then. These same young people would be called upon to bear the brunt of the fighting. An estimated half of Iran???s 70 million population (more than double Iraq???s) is under 30.

What do you expect from a President and Vice-President with primitive, simplistic, naive, bellicose and ill-informed views about the world. Watch this space, daddy Bush invaded Somalia just a month before leaving office, dumping the mess on the next adminstration. What is is his idiot son capable of?

Zakaria has provided an important and cogent perspective on the fiasco that is this Administration's foreign policy. Bush and Cheney seem incapable of sophisticated analysis about our relations around the world and apply the necessary adroit diplomatic overtures to further the interests of the U.S. The Bush worldview; simplistic, naive, ill-informed and bellicose is bound to lead us into another quagmire before this disastrous presidency comes to an end. Remember his father intervened in Somalia just one month before leaving office, dumping the mess on the Clinton Adminstration. It's a pattern of irresponsible exercise of power which the son has taken to an even greater heights. Too bad no one in the media or Congress can muster the gumption to confront and impede the train wreck headed our way.

I think the world is going to be one big nuclear war because of the President sticking his nose into another person's business. Wjhat they do in their country should be their business and not ours. We need to take carre of what we have at home before we take care of the rest of the world...

I think the President is just looking for a fight with all the nations in the world before he gets out of office and I think that if he keeps pushing then the other nations are going to push back...My personal opinion is to just keep our nose out of other people's business if we can't attend to our own. The President is just askig for another war before he gets out of office. PResident Bush should've been pushed out of office a long time ago.

I think that the President is just looking for another way to make a big ipact on the world by trying to start another war that he can't finish. President bush is just wanting to jump in everone's throat for suspecting them to have somethimg to do with nuclear weapons. I think that Bush should have been voted out of office a long time ago. Our troops have been gone for far too long and now it is time for them to come home. If we wnet to war with ever nation that we thought have something to do with nuclear weapons then we would be fighting the world. As our history show, we are young and a very foolish nation. We, the President, are just looking for a way to start trouble. I know that we have been a good place to live but when the world is trying to kill us then we will have no way to be the nation that the world think we are. The Entire Goveernment went into the power of the president and i think that it is time for a real person and not a idiot to run the country and keep our nose out of everyone else's business.

im my opinion the monetary system should turn out from USD to EURO.Or U.S People should limit Bush authority in financial system if the world war III wants to be avoided .If we expand the topic with an example when a mad person armed with heavy weapons he can harm himself as well as others.U.S government has an oppurtunity to expand the money stock in the world which can finance its demand.Bush armed himself with this weapon but he desnt know how his policy will effect the economy in the future.Greenspan pointed this problem couple of days ago.But everybody is trying to zip him:)U.S citizens pay taxes and Bush spread this money to the world without any knowledge for bringing democracy to the other side of the world but he is not able to finance this war with taxes he finance this war by boosting money stock.Other words we should compare Bush and H??ttler.One of killed millions of Jewish another is still killing millions of muslim. The world war III can be prevented by changing the monetary system or resignation of Bush.

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if American people are interested in avoiding World War III, they should be careful not to give chance any more to the people like Bush and Cheny to get power. It is in the hands of American people to save the world. More rational of them more hope for future

comment : With mad criminals at the Whie House, bush and cheney and their neocon enablers, we have to stop vilifying Stalin and Hitler and Mao who never went so far as massmudering their own people 9/11 style and blaming it on Muslims because they hate our freedom stuff. . These criminals are the worst in human history and any comparison with the most ruthless bloodsucker would be ludicrous and totally absurd. But look at the other side. What wrong has Ahmadinedjad commited besides defending his people's absolute and sacred and basic rights? He is not mad or stupid. Even with the biggest nuclear arsenal he would never ever attack Israel first. He wants to have the means of defending his country. And he is perfectly entitled to it in the face of zionist's irrationality and violence and neoclonialism.