Stalin, Mao And … Ahmadinejad?

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.

We have to stop vilifying Stalin and Hitler and Mao. These men never staged a 9/11 massacre of their own people accusing muslims because muslims hate our freedom. History has never witnessed such outrageous barbaric acts of savagery. The massmurderers at the White House, Bush and Cheney, and their neocon enablers are the most dangerous criminals in entire human history. Ahmadinejad has done no offense and deserves our respects because he merely defends the absolute and basic rights of his people.. Thank You. Nodupe

Funny how Zakaria is now railing AGAINST the neo-cons... He used to be one, back when he was participating in secret sessions with the Bush regime helping them create a strategy to sell the Iraq war (which should have gotten him fired from Newsweek)... Did Podhoretz say something bad about Zakaria's mother?

i hope that this world caries for it self and will stop the mad man in the the white house from attacking that pour state called iran and prevent from killing milions there like in iraq

Here is the problem, if you are reading this article or these comments , you are already a minority in the United States of America. Bush or Podholz are not talking to you, they are addressing the 59 million pin heads who voted for him the 2nd time despite the fact that all his lies were exposed. i for one have resigned from expectation of any sanity in this world. It has taken us thousands of years to build up the world and it will take us few days to destroy it. It may not be the first time we have done, who knows ?

This is the most crucial time for Presidential hopefuls. One comment about Israel hegemony, in favor of iran or even a simple Muslim guy on street means they will piss of ISREAL LOBBY and the Jewish votes. Our America is being run by ISRAEL_FIRSTER Jews and their lapdogs Evangelicals. Israel runs our Foreign Policy thru AIPAC (American ISRAEL Public Affairs Committee), JINSA, and other hundreds of Jewish organisations. Israeli Jews play on both the sides, Repub and Democrat. And that's the reason ISRAEL_FIRSTER Jews will always have their way in US. They will make US attack, Iran, Syria, Saudi all the way upto Pakistan for their dreams of Eratz Israel.
Check out "The Israel Lobby" by Maersheimer and Walt.

Mr. Zakaria,
I wish there were more conscientious and informed people like yourself out there. The media, the pillar of our democracy is maligned with weak journalism, sensationalism and biased reporting. From CNN to FOX I rarely see any facts figured or deep analysis. America is at a decline and the feckless media is main reason.

I am wondering why our Senators and Representatives in Washington don't oppose the start of another war. Obviousley, Bush and Cheney want to do this before they leave office, but we have other representatives who are key players, who can oppose this and make some noise about it? I'm talking about Sen. Clinton, Sen. Biden, Sen. Obama, Sen. Dodd, and others.
Common, it's about time you grew a backbone and stood up to the most destructive administration USA has ever had.
Just simple speeches and skimish remarks won't help either, be forceful and passionate so we can prevent another war.
Iranians are not violent, invasive people. They have only defended themselves against Saddam Hussein when he invaded Iran. No powerful country defended them or cooperated with them when they went through a war that was forced on them for 9 years.

While I am honestly unable to discern the right course of action for the current American leadership, what I do know is that unilaterally initiating war on a country that lauded its president for standing up to flagrant disrespect by American youths will only, and surely, serve to further alienate an entire nation who have never been pro-American to start with. This effect is likely to ripple through the entire region - and probably the world - and aggravate fermenting anti-American sentiment in places like Pakistan and of course North Korea, which may very well think itself next on the hit-list. The precariously influential neo-conservatives in power are arguing for a course that will lead to a diplomatic fiasco quite unprecedented and deliver the moral high ground to an unpredictable regime on a silver platter. All that burning of American tax revenues and lives, to pre-empt the possibly dangerous actions of a regime that might, just might, madly fire away nuclear missiles that it seems to possess. I think.

How come, there are no atomic bombs in Iran though plenty in Israel though Israel is regarded angel and Iran is regarded devil on earth by you.

How come, there are no atomic bombs in Iran though lots of them in Israel though Israel seems to be an angel and Iran the devil on earth.

I find it interesting that soo many, like 'hifromthesky', have taken the propaganda of US and Israeli governments at face value. No evidence has been provided, and none likely exists that Iran is actually after a nuclear device. Sure, its possible they might be, but there is no evidence of such a claim, thus it cannot be fact, such that is claimed by our governments, and thus the media in nearly all cases. This seemingly insignificant lie has been pushed soo much in the media in the past 2 years, that it has become known as 'fact' to everyone but those who chose to educate themselves outside of the daily news of CNN, NBC, FOX, etc.

I find it interesting that soo many, like 'hifromthesky', have taken the propaganda of US and Israeli governments at face value. No evidence has been provided, and none likely exists that Iran is actually after a nuclear device. Sure, its possible they might be, but there is no evidence of such a claim, thus it cannot be fact, such that is claimed by our governments, and thus the media in nearly all cases. This seemingly insignificant lie has been pushed soo much in the media in the past 2 years, that it has become known as 'fact' to everyone but those who chose to educate themselves outside of the daily news of CNN, NBC, FOX, etc.

What I find most disturbing is that 'neo-conservatives' like Podhoretz and others have attained such levels of influence at the heart of the american government, people who, frankly have a bizarre, paranoid and extremist veiw of the world. Political and ideological extremists are now closer to real power in America than ever before, and this is a profound problem. These people have the ear of the president and they are dangerous. President Bush doesn't have the intellectual balast, curiosity or inclination to critically examine the advice he's getting about Iran and we appear to be sliding towards war - again. Bush should be more careful when he refers to world war three. Bush is probably the most powerful man on earth, with the most powerful military in history at his disposal, he should not casually make these kind of remarks. It's very dangerous. Does it reflect thinking in the Whitehouse? If it does then we are in dire straights.

What's also deeply disturbing is the level of agression directed towards Iran by most mainstream politicians in the US. The leading presidential candidates almost appear to be competing with each other to show how hawkish they are, and that they too are willing to use nuclear weapons against Iran if necessary.

What would a war with Iran really achieve? Do we really think regime change is possible in Iran? That the United States can impose a pro-western regime in Iran? How realistic is this idea? But does realism even come into it? Why believe in realism when one has faith? How rational are the people around Bush? Do they believe that a short, sharp, nuclear attack on Iran would be the ultimate projection of American power and will? Real shock and awe? A lesson for the whole region and the world? That the United States really means business, bow or be burned?

Leaving the possible destruction of Iran, one has to wonder whether american democracy can really survive yet another unprovoked attack on a far weaker nation which poses no credible threat to the United States. So perhaps war with Iran will only prove to be a terrible disaster for Iran, but for the United States as well?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. For all you who believed Bush the first time, about Iraq's non-existent WMDs, about how the war would pay for itself (did ya hear Bush asked for ANOTHER 196 BILLION, not a typo, 196 BILLION, for the next few months of the Iraq war, and that's not the end, more of these war bills will keep on coming), and all the endless stream of lies him and his henchmen showered you with, you have to be a morron to defend him on Iraq, and I don't know what you have to be to believe his new set of lies, this time on Iran. I can tell you this. Iraq was defenseless, and still, so far we have lost over 4000 soldiers and almost one trillion dollars and it keeps on going. Iran, on the other hand, is 4 times bigger, 4 times more populous, a lot more mountainous and harder to attack and far more capable of defending itself. Years of pointless war in Iraq and Afghanistan has made us weary. In fact, for 60 years since WWII we have been getting ourselves into all sorts of wars and attacking other countries. Korea, Lebanon, Central America, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq I, Somalia, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq again... A miscalculation about Iran could finally bring down our war-wary empire. Don't get me wrong. There is no military that can come close to withstanding the greatness of our military. In fact, the only one who can bring us down is our arrogance. If you look at history, all great empires went down because they overstretched themselves. Our economy can't take more wars, and neither can the psyche of our population, regardless of how many more lies this administration spews.

Posted By: deric d Comment: "Is Iran intent on developing a nuclear weapon? Yes. Will it use it itself? No. Will it pass it on to a suicidal terrorist proxy? A very good chance. Will this terrorist detonate the device? Who knows? Could the terrorist hold a city or nation to ransom? Yes. In a nutshell can we trust Iran and its proxies if it possesses nuclear capability? No. So what do we do? You tell me."

But what will be the difference if we will replace Iran to Pakistan in your comments.
In fact there is much more danger that tomorrow Taliban which is sourcing from multiple adrasahes will overthrow Musharaf and will capture the bomb. In fact this is US which just presented nuclear weapon to Pakistan. So if to be reasonable, what makes Pakistan better than Iran? I can tell, only the fact that Pakistan at least right now has pro-American government and withstands to India in the region. And Iran withstands to Israel. You???re going to fight for Israel interests. Jews can go celebrate; they turn US into their soldier. This is all the politic of double standards. And the rest is just propaganda, to invent a new threat and to make Americans so scare for they would be ready to go to war. Looks like the fact, that you didn???t found any nuclear weapon in Iraq and that now everybody know that this was a lie, didn???t teach Americans to anything.

do it become the new king 4et america

become hitler man do it 4 real do it 4 us become the king know hahahahha