Iran has a message. Are we listening?
1st July 2007
Item. Probably not, since the message is “We want to kill you all” and the U.S. government just nods complacently and goes back to doing what it was doing.
Yeah, I know, that isn’t what Hirsh is saying, but what he’s saying is the same old sheepdip about how we could all come out of this smelling like roses if we just sat down together in a spirit of goodwill and Engaged In A Dialogue. Foreigners can smell these clowns a mile a way. (What’s Farsi for “Let’s have some fun with these guys”?)
The Romans had the right attitude: Oderint dum metuant.