Iranian News Agency delighted that Obama says US should "ratchet down" rhetoric on Iran

Straight from the Liberal mind. If you ignore it, it won't hurt you.

Yea, what Sounder said.

You do realize that by disagreeing with the annointed one (ie. Barry Hussein Obama) you will be labelled a racist.

Racist, huh? Phooey on that - or should I just say 'yuk'??? I'm a White Southern woman who would vote for Alan Keyes in a heartbeat.

I just wish the Post Office would hurry up and deliver the "NObama '08" bumper sticker that I ordered from World Net Daily!!!

No'BamaNation.

Peace in Our Time. Not.

Hopefully BO's tendency for foot in mouth will make up for McCain's lack of charisma. BO really hasn't got a clue, I hope the public realizes that before it's too late.

Barry Hussein - a true champion for our enemies.

A government expanding, tax imposing, behaviour controlling, liberal socialist hack of the old order.

You go Barry, and make sure you keep your ear plug connected so you wont forget what your new position is today.

An incompetent say anything ward front.

Its too bad Nobama is not old style Democrat, from the saying of "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
l think iranians need that type of treatment now.

If he thinks that what drives the price of oil higher is worry over what the United States or Israel will do about the clear threat of a nuclear Iran, and not a thousand other worries (should Americans remain in Iraq, for example, to make sure there is peace and harmony there sufficient to make sure that current wells flow and massive new oil exploration and production proceeds apace?), he is badly informed.

But for the sake of argument let's pretend he's got a point, and that if we stop talking about the Iranian threat that will make the price of oil cease to "ratchet" up and instead "ratchet" down. Meanwhile, with the Islamic Republic of Iran no longer having to endure those warnings which have been muted, apparently, for the sake of making sure that oil markets are not rattled, Iran quietly continues, as it has for the past decade and more, without any seeming halt or slowing-down, on its merry way, very close to the very end, to being able to produce, and then producing, nuclear weapons which, some of its most important leaders say, will have as their highest and best use being dropped smack on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities (think of that mushroom cloud over Jerusalem -- well, remember that Jerusalem is not that important to Muslims, it's not as if Mecca and Medina were being bombed).

And what will the government of Israel be expected to do? Nothing? Wait for Obama the Naif to engage in "dialogue" over months, and then years possibly, so as to give peace, or jaw-jaw, or something, a chance? No, the state of Israel is full of those who did manage to survive, but who are related to those who did endure, in Europe, savagery that was recognized by some, as soon as Hitler came to power, and by some of those same some as inevitably ending in the death camps that it did end in, and they are not about to rely on the judgment of someone who hardly knows the world, whose main understanding has come in his heart-rending "search for his own identity" and his years as a community organizer in southside Chicago. That's not quite the experience that allowed Winston Churchill, who had first witnessed Muslim behavior in the Sudan in the late 19th century, been First Lord of the Admiralty, served in all kinds of positions, had travelled, had read history, had thought, and so, when trouble came, in the person of Adolf Hitler and the ideology of Nazism, he, Winston Churchill, was ready to recognize it, and he, and not only he, but others similarly educated (or self-educated) and well-travelled and thoughtful, and innocent of the almost wilful innocence of our age (see Jimmy Carter, who still has no idea what he did not understand about Khomeini when he let the Shah fall, still does not understand how cruel has been his attitude toward Israel, still piously believes that he was right to negotiate, on his own, with North Korea, still, despite a lifetime of foreign policy disasters that haunt and threaten us still, thinks of himself self-righteously as a righteous man, a good man, and what's more, someone who "truly" understands the world because, you see, he's a Man of Peace, and that already justifies him and all his works and days.

Obama has no idea how little he knows. He paces across the stage, as if he were some professorial sage. But he's no Paul Freund. At best, he's a brow-furrowing mimic of the real thing, of whom examples might be given, but it would be churlish to do so. You can, especially if you've attended any kind of school where the ponderous maieutic method is employed (it need not be a law school), supply examples from your own experience.

No, the people and government of tiny Israel just can't wait for Barack Obama to learn just a bit more about Islam, and about the big world. They just can't.

Some excerpts from an article recently published in the Jerusalem Post, concerning the Six Day War:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041467558&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

"When I [Avner] walked into the premier's room, his head was bent low over a document, but I could instantly see he looked more wan and sallow than I had ever seen him before.

"We're getting lots of letters and telegrams from some very important people," he grunted, hardly looking up. "Go through them and draft replies. Consult Ya'acov if you're not sure what to say."

Dr. Ya'acov Herzog was one of Israel's commanding intellects, possessed of a subtle and powerful brain that was equally at home with Bach and the Bible. A devout Jew, he was the son of a former chief rabbi of Israel, the younger brother of a future president, and the prime minister's most trusted foreign policy adviser.
Herzog had obtained his early schooling in Dublin, where his father had once officiated, so his Hebrew was brushed with an Irish brogue. This was excessively amplified when he burst into the room and told the premier in a chilling tone:

"Field intelligence reports that poison gas equipment has been spotted in Sinai. There is a possibility the Egyptians intend to use it. Nasser used poison gas in the Yemen. And we have no stockpiles of gas masks."

"No gas masks?"

"Nothing to speak of," confirmed Herzog.

'THE EFFECT was graveyard. The prime minister turned his head, bit his lips, hid his face in his hands, sat there perfectly still for a moment, and whispered in Yiddish, "Blut vet giessen vee vasser" ("Blood will spill like water")....

'As I was gathering a carton of letters, I could distinctly hear Levi Eshkol's voice through the half-open door, yelling into the telephone: "You hear me, Eban [the then Foreign Minister]? That's right - poison gas. Tell Johnson the question is no longer freedom of passage to Eilat, but Israel's existence."

'Then, absolutely beside himself: "Zug tzu der goy az meer hoben tzu te'en mit chayes. Eer hert - chayes!" (Tell the goy we're dealing with animals. You hear - animals!)...

'IT HAD been a calamitous day from the start - nerve-racking cabinet consultations, endless phone calls, party politicking, and the IDF general staff straining at the leash like dogs penned up in kennels, wanting to strike before the enemy's build-up became impenetrable.'...

'On Sunday, June 4, the war cabinet passed a resolution to break the stranglehold by carrying out a preemptive strike, and next day, June 5, soldiers in the southern trenches turned their faces skyward in response to a distant hum that quickly grew into the drumming thunder of scores of combat aircraft roaring in tight formations toward the sea.

'They were flashing by at such low altitudes one could make out the Star of David on their fuselages.

'A few hours later Begin, now in the cabinet, climbed the stairs to the prime minister's Tel Aviv bureau, where an exuberant Levi Eshkol called out to him: "Mi daf machen shechyanu" (We must recite a thanksgiving blessing)

' and made him privy to the single most spectacular piece of news he had ever heard in his life: In a surprise attack that morning, the Israeli air force had wiped out the Egyptian air force. The Syrians, Jordanians and Iraqis had all opened fire, and consequently their air forces were being demolished, too."

After reading that, this is what I see in my dreams - a flock of high-flying F22s, each one newly adorned with a Star of David, L'Etoile du Redemption, wafting through Iran's aerial defences like ghosts, like avenging angels carrying the prayers of 270 million murdered kafir, en route to annihilate possibly the single biggest threat - to freedom, love, life and human hope and creativity - that has ever existed.

And then we might be able to echo Churchill's words at the end of the Battle of Britain: never in human history have so many owed so much to so few.

DDA,

I'm stunned! Wow! Thanks for this comment.

May we all all hope and pray that this spirit lives on in Israel, in its people, in its leaders.

Oh, I'm all for "ratcheting down" the rhetoric, as long as it's accompanied by securing our borders and preparing to face the looming threat. The time for jaw-jaw'ing and posing is long over, it's time for eviscerating the jihad.

But somehow, I don't think that's what Barak Obama has in mind.

[Obligatory non-partisan remark: that's not what John McCain has in mind either]

Oh, I'm all for "ratcheting down" the rhetoric, as long as it's accompanied by securing our borders and preparing to face the looming threat. The time for jaw-jaw'ing and posing is long over, it's time for eviscerating the jihad.
But somehow, I don't think that's what Barak Obama has in mind.

[Obligatory non-partisan remark: that's not what John McCain has in mind either]

Posted by: special_guest

But John McCain knows the BITTER taste of defeat –

AND YOU CAN BET YOUR LIFE

that he will do everything in his power, to not taste THAT cup again!

boneshack -

don't compliment *me* too effusively - except for the final two paragraphs, which is an attempt to imagine what many of us here are hoping against hope will happen, the bulk of what I posted above is, verbatim, the writing of a man called Yehuda Avner, who was then [in 1967] "a junior member of prime minister Levi Eshkol's staff".

The whole of it may be read if you follow the Jerusalem Post link I provided. It makes the hair stand up on the back of one's neck. Dear G-d it was a close-run thing.