Ahmadinejad

I guess now that Gaddafi is setting pins in Osama's old bowling alley in Branson, and Osama himself is dead yet again, the Number One Bad Guy in the World Cup goes to Ahmadinejad. Most of the talking heads on TV have even learned to pronounce his name without giggling.  If his name was any harder, they might make some more easily-pronounced guy the current reincarnation of Hitler.  And would Hitler have been the Hitler of his day if the family name had remained Schickelgruber?  Would Stalin be hated a little less if he'd kept his original name, იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი?  Persians have a tendency to have such names, which is odd, considering that Farsi is an Indo-European language, related to English, and you'd expect a native Persian name to be easier to handle than a borrowed Arabic name, and then you encounter Sadegh Ghotbzadeh — remember him?

Anyhow, Ahmadinejad does rant and rave, but in the midst of all his hatefulness, he asks a difficult question or two.  If it's okay for the US, Israel, Pakistan, and India (to name just a few) to have nukes, why is it an unpardonable sin in the case of Iran?  Another:  If Jews were murdered and otherwise abused by Germans and other Europeans, why is it the Palestinians who have to be punished for it?

Well, these and other observations are to be found this morning over at Taki's Magazine.  Huh?  I used the wrong illustration? That's NOT Ahmadinejad?  Oh, well — too late to change it now.