My Dinner With Mahmoud
My invitation got lost in the mail, but thank God at least some people got to break bread with the diminutive dictator:
The invitation was on creamy stationery with fancy calligraphy: The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran “requests the pleasure” of my company to dine with H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dinner is at the Intercontinental Hotel — with names carefully written out at all the place settings around a rectangular table. There are about 50 of us, academics and journalists mostly. There’s Brian Williams across the room, and Christiane Amanpour a few seats down. And at a little after 8pm, on a day when he has already addressed the U.N., the evening after his confrontation at Columbia, a bowing and smiling Mahmoud Admadinejad glides into the room…
That’s Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pal. Wikipedia says he got his Ph.D. in “transportation engineering”—handy for blowing up Israeli buses.
Aunt Agatha and I talk all the time about what ultimate justice awaits the coddlers, appeasers, and liars in the press. I fear there is none, unless we demand it. We know them for who they are, and we won’t shut up, and we won’t forget.
BTW, the link above to the suicide attack is the massacre that took the life of Shiri Negari, whom we first heard about yesterday. Her family has a guestbook here if you’d like to sign and a memorial fund here if you’d like to contribute.
PS: At least one “journalist” had the spine to ask questions tough enough to flummox the jacketed jihadi:
“Hello, my name is Karnit, the wife of Ehud Goldwasser, the soldier who has been held captive for over a year. Since you are the man that is behind the kidnapping due to the aid you grant Hizbullah, why don’t you allow the Red Cross to visit the two soldiers?” she asked.
The president ignored the question.
She was shown the door for her troubles.
Chaz said,
July 15, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
Maybe you may not believe in God, but if he is out there (and I believe he is) and he does judge according to one’s deeds (and I believe he does) then he will see the blood on the hands of those who have committed those crimes and ask ‘why?’ They may have an answer, but it will mean little.
He will then see the blood on the hands of those who took an active part in accepting this, enabling this, allowing it to happen and ask ‘why?’ They will have less of an answer.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
July 15, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
Chaz,
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you for saying it. Please feel free to comment on any posts more recent than 10 months ago. It sounds like you have much to say.
BTL