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When I opened my email this morning, I saw a message from AJ, marked important. Knowing the responsibilities of this particular relative, I opened it with a bit of trepidation.

It was with great relief that I realized that the message was not about certain nutcases being on the rampage – a rampage that would have been nothing that Thorazine and a padded room couldn’t have handled.

Family, can’t live with ‘em.

Can’t…

Where was I? Oh. The email.

When I opened my email this morning, I saw a message from AJ, marked important. Knowing the responsibilities of this particular relative, I opened it with a bit of trepidation.

It was with great relief that I realized that the message was not about certain nutcases being on the rampage – a rampage that would have been nothing that Thorazine and a padded room couldn’t have handled.

Family, can’t live with ‘em.

Can’t…

Where was I? Oh. The email.

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Most people do not know that Hitler’s Germany could not have developed into a threat without outside help. Bankers and investors lined up to give loans and make investments. Even while Hitler was demonstrating his evil intentions, they loaned and invested.

Without that support, Hitler would have been just one more ineffectual crackpot.

This century’s version of Hitler is as much a threat as Hitler ever was, and guess what… we’re doing it again. 

That’s right. We’re giving him loans and making investments. Here’s a quote from the Washington Post:

Most people do not know that Hitler’s Germany could not have developed into a threat without outside help. Bankers and investors lined up to give loans and make investments. Even while Hitler was demonstrating his evil intentions, they loaned and invested.

Without that support, Hitler would have been just one more ineffectual crackpot.

This century’s version of Hitler is as much a threat as Hitler ever was, and guess what… we’re doing it again. 

That’s right. We’re giving him loans and making investments. Here’s a quote from the Washington Post:

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Carol just sent me an email with an interesting article written by Paul Marek, who writes a blog here:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/

Anyway, the article that is interesting is this one:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html

It’s a bit more than a year old, but absolutely timeless. I’ll give you a couple paragraphs from his blog entry, and ask you to go and read the rest yourself.

He writes about a German friend:

Carol just sent me an email with an interesting article written by Paul Marek, who writes a blog here:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/

Anyway, the article that is interesting is this one:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html

It’s a bit more than a year old, but absolutely timeless. I’ll give you a couple paragraphs from his blog entry, and ask you to go and read the rest yourself.

He writes about a German friend:

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In my series on Bernard Lewis’ interview with The Jerusalem Post, I want to start with two quotes from the article:

For President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran, he noted dryly, the notion of mutual assured destruction, of certain devastation so immense as to have kept the United States and the Soviet Union from firing their missiles at each other through the Cold War, was “not a deterrent,” but rather “an inducement.” Given the apocalyptic messianism of Ahmadinejad and his supporters, “if they kill large numbers of their own people, they are doing them a favor. They are giving them a quick free pass to heaven and all its delights, the divine brothel in the skies.”

In my series on Bernard Lewis’ interview with The Jerusalem Post, I want to start with two quotes from the article:

For President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran, he noted dryly, the notion of mutual assured destruction, of certain devastation so immense as to have kept the United States and the Soviet Union from firing their missiles at each other through the Cold War, was “not a deterrent,” but rather “an inducement.” Given the apocalyptic messianism of Ahmadinejad and his supporters, “if they kill large numbers of their own people, they are doing them a favor. They are giving them a quick free pass to heaven and all its delights, the divine brothel in the skies.”

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At the ripe old age of 90, Barnard Lewis has seen a lot, and the part of the ‘lot’ that we are interested in is Iran.

True, he’s controversial, and he’s stuck his foot in a lot smelly topics and come away with a bad smell himself… But, his insight is incredible. So many of his predictions have come true that you begin to wonder at some latent psychic power. He’s not perfect, mind you. Just good. Very.

Why do I bring up Professor Emeritus Lewis now? Because he’s been speaking and writing on Iran, and echoing quite a few things that I’ve been saying here. More than that, he has been breaking new ground, even for me.

At the ripe old age of 90, Barnard Lewis has seen a lot, and the part of the ‘lot’ that we are interested in is Iran.

True, he’s controversial, and he’s stuck his foot in a lot smelly topics and come away with a bad smell himself… But, his insight is incredible. So many of his predictions have come true that you begin to wonder at some latent psychic power. He’s not perfect, mind you. Just good. Very.

Why do I bring up Professor Emeritus Lewis now? Because he’s been speaking and writing on Iran, and echoing quite a few things that I’ve been saying here. More than that, he has been breaking new ground, even for me.

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