Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left, speaks in the conference room of a New York City hotel Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006. Ahmadinejad broke away from events at the U.N. General Assembly to hold an informal question-and-answer session with members of the Council on Foreign Relations despite objections from some Jewish groups and the Bush administration. (AP Photo/Don Pollard)
The New York Times reported on September 23 that Israel’s ambassador to the United States accused the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) of making a “terrible mistake” by holding a meeting with Ahmadinejad last week:
“Some of those upset with the council’s decision have compared it to hypothetically inviting Hitler to a meeting in the 1930’s,” the ambassador, Daniel Ayalon, wrote to the council’s president, Richard N. Haass. “In fact, meeting with Ahmadinejad is worse: Hitler did not openly call for genocide in the 1930’s, and today we have the lessons of the 1930’s to guide us.”
Daniel Henninger, speaking over the weekend on the Journal Editorial Report, argued that Ahmadinejad’s meeting with the CFR actually strengthened the case for a more aggressive stance towards
I think for those of us who want a more aggressive stance towards
, it was a very successful week. Ahmadinejad had this famous appearance before the Council of Foreign Relations this past week -- you know, the seat of the foreign policy establishment in the Iran . And he goes in there and denies the Holocaust at some length in front of these people, most of whom walked out saying this is very unsettling to see who we're dealing with. United States
On September 21, the CFR posted a summary of the meeting. It is almost humorous to read it -- the deans of the foreign policy establishment asking their careful “you-don’t-really-mean-that-do-you?” and “can’t-we-all-just-get-along?” questions and getting nothing in return:
Differing views were apparent from the first question of the evening, when Peter G. Peterson, CFR's chairman . . . noted that he and David Rockefeller, who was also a participant in the meeting, had visited Auschwitz . . . [and] that the majority of American Jews and non-Jews alike were “horrified” by Ahmadinejad's assertion that the Holocaust was a “myth.” The Iranian said he doubted Americans all held such a view. . .
Martin S. Indyk, who has served twice as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and a tour as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, noted he had endeavored during the Clinton administration to work out a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but that Iranian-supported terrorists “did everything possible” to prevent it. The Iranian president again repeated what he has said before, namely that all Palestinians should “decide” their future.
On the question of
’s nuclear program, the Iranian president broke no new ground. He was questioned by Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser, as to why Iran insisted on going ahead with its uranium enrichment program. Others asked why Iran Iran did not accept the offer made by President Bush forto have peaceful uses of nuclear energy so long as it stopped the enrichment program. Iran Ahmadinejad repeated that Iran had the right to develop a peaceful nuclear program, and that it had no intention of building nuclear weapons. . . .
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said "Iranian journalists are imprisoned and newspapers are closed” and that "elections are not free." . . . . This led Ahmadinejad to claim that his country was freer than the
. . . . United States When asked by Fareed Zakaria, a columnist and editor for Newsweek, whether there was a way to restoring the good relations that once existed between the two countries, the Iranian president blamed the United States for the break in relations following the Iranian revolution in 1979. He did not mention the seizure of American embassy hostages for 444 days. . . .
As the meeting drew to a close, the Iranian leader observed, “In the beginning of the session you said you are independent, and I accepted that. But everything you said seems to come from the government perspective.”
Admadinejad told them they were no better than Bush! No greater insult exists among the “foreign policy establishment.”
The September 21 CFR summary reported that CFR President Richard N. Haass said afterwards that “I’m not sure we learned anything new.” But two days later he was back in full foreign policy establishment mode. Writing in the September 23 issue of the Los Angeles Times, Haass told readers:
Did we learn anything? I heard three things of considerable interest. Ahmadinejad said that Iran was open to cooperating to stabilize Iraq; that Iran believed it had a right to enrich uranium but that, for religious reasons, it was prohibited from having nuclear weapons; and that Iran is open to relations with the United States if Washington is prepared to take the initiative.
They’re “open!” They’re de-stabilizing
And why worry? They're "prohibited" from having nuclear weapons -- “for religious reasons.”
So: the American foreign policy establishment meets with a Hitler wannabe, gets rolled -- in a "dialogue" with a ludicrously non-responsive Ahmadinejad -- and the president of the CFR then assures the world they heard things of "considerable interest" and recommends "negotiations." How dumb can the American "foreign policy establishment" be?
I believe as a Christian the mysticism and mythic mind of Zionim must soon leave Disney Land, and realize saying a thing does not necessarily make it true. Nor does extended use of deception prolong indefinitely the realization of obvious fact.
The average American is quickly becoming aware they have been used, also their own government and Corp-Media were complicit in endangering our entire nation in doing so.
Sue for peace, the True Torah Jewish that are obedient to God are correct, Israel has become what they warned long ago. Deception is getting old, it soon will cause much re-arrangement in the government of America. Time is short.
Posted by: DeWayne | March 17, 2007 at 08:07 PM