A Major Strategic Threat

The Vicar of Downing Street, who is complicit in the violent deaths of some six hundred and fifty thousand Iraqis and who this year condoned the Righteous State's not altogether stabilising rampage in Lebanon, has pronounced yet another anathema upon the true enemy of regional stability. Iran, which has attacked no other country in the entire history of its existence, is holding a conference for Holocaust deniers. Naturally, given his opinion of talk as opposed to violence, his reverence finds this "disgusting, unbelievable and shocking" and "a symbol of sectarianism and hatred towards a people" in a way that Israel's Fence of Fraternity clearly is not. The Iranian government, according to his reverence, is also "deliberately causing maximum problems for moderate governments" and, which amounts to the same thing, ourselves wherever we choose to interfere in the region. That is certainly too bad of them. Meanwhile, his reverence demonstrated once again the vaunted split between himself and George W Bush, who is not interested in negotiating with Iran and Syria: there is, said the doggie, "'little point' in including Iran and Syria in regional issues" pertaining to the region where Iran and Syria are located, "unless they are prepared to be constructive". Saddam Hussein was not prepared to be constructive, and look what happened to him. Unless Iran learns from his example, and stops whatever it is doing whether it is doing anything or not, it could well find itself being considered less than moderate by almost the entire Coalition of the Willing.