When my younger sister was a lot younger than she is today, she used to kvetch a lot, especially when she wouldn’t get her way. At first, since she was the youngest, we would try to appease her. That worked for a little bit, but then she’d get cranky after a while. So then we would tell her to be quiet. That definately didn’t work. Finally, we learned the hard way that in order to deal with her when she was annoying was just to ignore her.
This situation is reminiscent of a sitatution of global proportions- Ahmadinejad and his evil regime. Following his speech to the General Assembly of the UN, I have to ask myself- why does the world continually give this mad man a forum?? I get the whole idea of democracy and freedom of speech, but he clearly doesn’t, so why do we humor him. Are we going to have to learn the hard way not to give this man an audience?
President Obama has already tried to appease him at the beginning of his term. Ahmadinejad was unimpressed with the effort. When that didn’t work- we imposed sanctions in Iran- yet again. That was a failure; Iran is getting closer and closer to being nuclear. So why do we insist on allowing him to speak? What ‘words of wisdom’ will we miss by not allowing him to speak- the invitation to join Iranian experts for conference on how to deal with terrorism, or the ludicrous suggestion that the United States government is behind the 9/11 attacks?
Talk is cheap, it’s time for action.
