Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
I mean, it couldn't be more of a joke, could it? You've probably all heard by now about Mad Mahmoud's latest berzerkazoid performance at the UN. Thankfully, our delegation did at least do the decent thing and walk out. (Check out the list of countries that joined us in walking out. Good for you, Costa Rica. Haiti, don't call us next time you have an earthquake--although to be honest, I'm not sure the Haitians were even in the hall, they might have gone out for lunch after Préval used the podium of the General Assembly to call upon the world to end the age of greed and dethrone the god of profit, a model that's worked really well for Haiti, obviously.)
Reuel Marc Gerecht, whose prose style I always admire, asks the usual rhetorical questions one asks after whatever characteristic abomination Ahmadinejad has recently committed:
What are we willing to do to stop Khamenei and his Guards from having nuclear weapons? Are we willing to get damn serious about sanctions? Go to the mat with the Chinese, Russians, Turks, Venezuelans, and Swiss who try to augment their trade with the Islamic Republic? Are we willing to start talking about an oil embargo? Are we willing, finally, to support those Iranian democratic dissidents who’ve quietly asked for our assistance? Start the hard and dangerous work that’s necessary to support dissidents in a denied area where transgressions will get them raped or killed? Are we willing to credibly threaten the use of force against Khamenei if he does not stop the nuclear program?
I'll help you out, Reuel: No, no, no, no, no and no. We've got more important things to worry about, like the toilet-paper crisis in California's state parks.
So, the UN continues to give a platform to this foam-speckled, Holocaust-denying freak, who uses it to declare that the United States attacked itself on September 11, and the vast majority of the delegates of the assembled nations nod pleasantly. Meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Council issues a stirring denunciation of Israel for its role in the Mavi Marmara fiasco, stressing that Israel’s attack “constituted grave violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law.” Any mention of recent reports indicating that Iran is financing the IHH? Nope. How about this little item?
At the end of the interview Karimi stated that IHH was inspired by the ideology of the Ayatollah Khomeini. He said that IHH operatives told him they believed in Khomeini’s famous dictum, that if each Muslim threw a bucket of water on Israel, it would be erased.
Any mention? Nope!
Oddly, as Turkish columnist Bulent Kenes notes, the report of the Human Rights Council was not well-received by the Israelis. Kenes is deeply concerned for the fate and the soul of Israel, which, he worries, is in danger of succumbing to a "morbid mentality."
What happened to the famed “Jewish intelligence” as Alaton put it? To where will this deep-seated paranoia, insecurity, inferiority complex and insanity lead Israel? I pray to the single God to whom Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe that He restore sanity and a sound mentality to Israel.
I am sure Israelis are deeply grateful for his prayers, one and all.
I really do think it's time for Stephen Colbert to get involved and bring some measure of seriousness to this whole business. The West needs to display its resolve. Send in the A-team.
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May '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
Oddly, I think he'd love the job. And be far better at it than anyone else on Team Barry. Mainly because Dinner Jacket is such a risible garden gnome, like Kim Jong-Il, and Colbert wouldn't even pretend to respect him. Something might actually get accomplished. One should never put the State Department in charge of diplomacy.
Also, it would be a chance to erase the stain of his disastrous tenure as Finance Minister to Louis XIV.
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
I agree. Really, how could it be worse? I say give Colbert a chance.
Aug '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
That Ahmadinejad, and anyone who has sucked up to him, especially Chavez, still has any credibility with anyone anywhere says it all about the preponderance of useful idiots on the left. And he who shook the hand that shook the hand of Mahmoud owes an apology to decent people everywhere for his naïveté if not worse.
Aug '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
What better way to show our contempt for tyrants than to send Colbert? He might be very useful. If he met with Kim Jong Il and Hugo Chavez also, it might be a real hoot.
Aug '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
Didn't they check with Honduras ? They had a pretty funny guy in Zelaya. Heck the NYT is still calling that a coup. Talk about revising history ? It's like "Harpo Speaks !" .
Colbert is just the canary at the celebrity roast. We are waiting for Sarah Silverman to go to the UN. Kathy Griffiths has already been selected as Carp Czar.
These minor comediennes, all Whoopi wannabes, are clamoring for a postapocalyptic White House gig anyway. If you have read the Iowahawk Celebrity Roast of Obama, you'd realize that Wanda Sykes is heading up the delegation.
So sad it's funny ? Save us a seat at Poseidon, Istanbul may been saner than NYC.
Who's the MC for this horror show ? Oh....that's right......it's our president.
Edited on Sep 25, 2010 at 7:02amMay '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
Yesterday, the main story on FoxNews.com was an interview with Ahmadinejad, titled something like, "Ahmadinejad defends 9-11 claims." It's nice that even conservative journalists are willing to help dictators spread the word.
The U.N. should be abolished, at least in its present form. A forum where world leaders can meet, share their concerns and facilitate temporary coalitions is useful. An unqualified alliance of nations open to all is not.
Jul '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
Great idea Claire. Some potential headlines:
"U.S.- Iranian Engagement Spearheaded by Conservative Journalist" Guardian
"Top U.S. Immigration Expert Received by President" Tehran Times
"Smart-Aleck v. Nutjob: Round One" NY Post
Jun '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
I'd like to send Colbert on a hiking trip along the Iraq/Iran border. Can we arrange that?
Feb '10
Re: Let's Send Stephen Colbert to Negotiate With Iran
"Didn't they check with Honduras ? They had a pretty funny guy in Zelaya. Heck the NYT is still calling that a coup. Talk about revising history ?" But at least enough Hondurans had the sense to give the guy the boot...