Tuesday, October 02, 2007

QOTD

Matthias Kuntzel, "From Khomeini to Ahmadinejad," Policy Review, December 2006, quoting Ayatollah Khomeini speaking in 1980:
We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.
Over to you, leftists who think Iran can be deterred by conventional methods.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

> Over to you, leftists who think Iran can be deterred by conventional methods.

Well, I'm not a leftie, but if your conventional methods includes turning lots of sand into glass very quickly (a very conventional approach in human history in form, if not in scale - see Carthage) then yes, conventional methods ought to be quite successful...
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:-D