Monday, February 12, 2007
Thanks ABC
For giving this guy a microphone. He absolutely refuses to answer Diane's questions and instead spews hatred for the war and Bush. After he refuses to answer questions - pull the plug - why let him say whatever he wants. It is no longer an interview, instead it just becomes a forum for him to say whatever he wants.
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He's the Iranian President- I want to know what crazy shit he'll say given a free forum, because we're gonna need to be able to understand and predict his actions as much as possible so we can prevent and counteract the ones that hurt us.
I have heard his shit given a free forum. You know when he says Israel should be wiped off the map. Or when he says the US will soon end. Or the Holocaust never happened. I want to hear him answer specific questions. That I have not seem him do yet. Every american journalist who has interviewed him (Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, Diane Sawyer) has left him get away with saying anything he wants. He gets free media time on National TV preaching his stuff without answering the tough quesetions I want to hear.
I find it interesting that Darwin characterize his position as crazy thereby implying the Iranian president as reasoning as capricious. He further argues that by taking in his unpredictable views we will be able to predict him better. This strikes me as contradictory. The fact that his views are crazy implies a lack of rationality in their formation making it impossible to predict his positions.
On some level I suspect Darwin’s seemingly self defeating need to understand the Iranian president will lead him to disapprove of armed conflict against Iran while I would argue it is precisely his craziness that warrants armed conflict. Darwin’s argument appears to be a variant on the liberal position if we understand Islamic fundamentalist they will not longer act erratically. It’s a profoundly naïve view of the Islamic Fundamentalist position. A view they have been cashing in on since the seventies.
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