What the Heck was I Thinking!?

Dr. Sanity is known for her keen insight into the mind and motivations of man. She usually cuts right through the smokescreen of politically correct words to what a writer is really saying.
In her latest post, however, she seems to tread too lightly around the issue of how Sunni and Shiite extremists in Iraq treat each other and the rest of the Muslim population. It’s hard to tell how Dr. Sanity really feels when she says…

Dr. Sanity: DOOMED ?

This is how muslim treats muslim, despite the bullshit religious brotherhood rhetoric. Does anyone doubt that the ideology that drives such unbridled evil will hesitate even one moment to use nuclear, biological and/or chemical weapons against non-muslim populations if it had the chance?

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…you end with wrong conclusions.
LondonYank posts about the wonderful world the Iranians live in, especially when compared with the decadent United States. His description clearly explains why so many Americans are trying to immigrate to Iran, especially gays and women seeking liberation from the oppresive imperialist bosses.
He then moves on to describe how Akhmadenijad didn’t really mean that Israel should be destroyed, but that his glorious 5000-year-old country saw that mere stripling of an 80-year-old Israel as a flash in the pan. Surely such a cosmopolitan sophisticate as Akhmadenijad didn’t mean Iran would supply the flash!
That reminds me of the joke about Yasser Arafat and Shimon Perez sitting down to negotiate. Perez first says he wants to tell a story and proceeds, “As Moses and the Israelites came to the river Jordan and prepared to enter the promised land, Moses said they all had to go into the river and wash themselves. They all did, leaving their clothes on the bank of the river. When they came out, Moses cried out, “who stole my clothes!?” “It was the Palestinians,” shouted all the Israelites… At this point, Yasser Arafat interrupted Perez’ story to object, “Wait a minute, there weren’t any Palestinians back then!” “Good,”said Perez, “now we’ve got that part settled.”
Back to Iran and LondonYank - It’s not clear what the point of the travel brochure on Iran’s wonderful culture is all about. Should the United States become a “progressive” Muslim theocracy as Iran is? Should we adopt their version of Muslim law? Should the US cut defense spending to barely 10% of what we currently spend? Just what is the point of the high praise for Iran and condemnation of the US and Israel?
I believe it is only to claim, with false data, that US = bad and Iran = good, no matter what the facts really say. Oh, I forgot the rest of the equation Israel = US = bad.
After a while the writing of LondonYank begins to sound like that old familiar song, communist or social rhetoric:

 As long as the corporatist kleptocrats who run our nation feel
threatened by educational and social progress in resource rich nations,
Iran can expect the same treatment as Iraq and Lebanon.

He then goes on to describe a hypothetical attack by the US, using his vast experience with all things military:

We speculated that the newer munitions might have been saved to carpet
the mountains  encircling Khuzestan and the Persian Gulf coast with billions of cluster bombs,
sealing the seized regions from Iranian attempts at retaking the
territory and cost-effectively securing their occupation for decades to
come.

Surprisingly, clusterbombs don’t work as a way to seal seized territory as mines would. The bombs are intended to explode when dropped.  Maybe he meant mines?
Most of what this crackpot, nostalgic for the lost socialist takeover of capitalism, writes is aimed at Ralph Peters, who wrote a commentary piece for the Armed Forces Journal.

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