A superb New York Sun Editorial:
Hardliners in the war on Islamic extremist terrorism have long called for it to be treated as a war rather than a law-enforcement issue. Yet by allowing, in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of an Axis regime to come to New York and stay on Park Avenue at the Intercontinental Hotel The Barclay, President Bush is signaling that he's less than serious in his approach to a regime he marked, at the outset of his presidency, as evil. Those who recognize the Iranian threat are left with the law-enforcement option. Police Commissioner Kelly, District Attorney Morgenthau, or any enterprising federal prosecutor or G-Man has a perfect opportunity at hand to seize Mr. Ahmadinejad and to hold him as a material witness or even as a suspect. Years ago the Jewish Forward newspaper made a similar argument in respect of the Hafez al-Assad of Syria. It didn't happen, of course, and the Syrian occupation of Lebanon grew worse until the murder of Rafik Harari and the new outbreak of war.An ample American legal record already holds the Iranian government responsible for terrorist attacks by Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. As our Josh Gerstein reported on April 3, dozens of rulings, many of them by a federal judge in Washington, Royce Lamberth, have found Iran civilly liable for murders; courts have made verdicts against Iran totaling about $6 billion. A December 2003 fact sheet from the Republican Study Committee in the House of Representatives lists at least 52 Americans murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists since 1993. Many of the victims are New Yorkers, and Iranian funding and training figured in many of the attacks, according to American and Israeli government and non-government reports on terrorist organizations.
Mr. Bush himself said earlier this month, "The Iranian regime and its terrorist proxies have demonstrated their willingness to kill Americans." The president said that Hezbollah, which Iran funds with hundreds of millions of dollars a year, is "directly responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans abroad. It was Hezbollah that was behind the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans. And Saudi Hezbollah was behind the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 Americans, an attack conducted by terrorists who we believe were working with Iranian officials."
Read it all.
Um, arresting Ahma-nutjob was my idea actually, but hey, I don't work for a newspaper -- I only get quoted in them.
lol lol.
Could u imagine?? it would be sooo funny.
The U.N would then unite and attack U.S for arresting a great hero of the faith.
lol.
pray to God that he gets arrested and placed on trial with Sudam Hussien.
time for an unexplained airplane disappearance.Of course the Muslims will blame us, but then they blame us for everything else.
Ahmadinejad should indeed be arrested. But what are the odds that his bodyguards would allow New York's Finest to take him into custody? My guess is they would shoot anyone, including legitimate law enforcement agents, who laid a hand on him. Such is their respect for any law but their own twisted sharia.
SNAG the little weasel!! Put a blindfold around that little pencil-neck's eyes and let the hostages from 1978 lead him around and dictate terms and conditions to him! This is a conformed terrorist who held our people hostage. It's PAYBACK DAY!!!
Angryeagle is right. There was a photo published of a 1978 hostage being led blindfolded through a crowd. On his left arm there was a terrorist who looked a lot like the Iranian 'beast Boy prez. If I remember correctly there was a former hostage who ID'ed him.
That alone should get him arrested and detained while an 'investigation' is conducted...
Bonedigger...Hahaha...now thats funny...
Oh no, we have to be nice. BLECH!
Even when they are plotting to kill us.
Arresting Ahmadinijad would have been great, but I knew it was not going to happen. I didn't get a chance to hear all of President Bush's speach at the United Nations, but it sounds as though he is backing down on sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.
This is disasterous.
As weak as sanctions would be, at least they would signal *some* consequences for Iran to continue on its developing the bomb.
I don't believe that Bush backed down on his own. I think it had become clear that very few of our "allies" would back even weak sanctions. Most egregiously, France has clearly backed away from the idea of sanctions, putting itself in the camp with Russia and China.
How they can be so short sighted is astonishing to me. Do they really think that it is worth having a feral, nuclear Iran just to tweak the US? Or are they already so cowed by the idea of a nuclear Iran that they are backing off any adversarial relationship with them out of fear?
Either way, this is awful.
Bush will kiss both sides of the Mighty Nut Job Ahmadinejad's a%% before that happens, I am sorry to report.
Ahmadinejad is sadly going to leave the United States a free man. Thanks to the cowardice of our Presidente se vende.
"W" is for 'wobbly'!!!!