Thursday July 27, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again.

Ahmadinejad is in Tajikistan where he signed a declaration and together with the president of Tajikistan issued a proclamation:
"the use of force against Palestine and Lebanon is unacceptable."

More telling is his comment about the United States and Israel:
the US and Israel are trying to re-carve the map of the Middle East.

What is Ahmadinejad up to?
He is fueling the conspiracy theories that pervade the Muslim world that Israel and the US are there to take over and take control.
No matter that Israel has no territorial claims in Gaza or Lebanon, that they are ceding territory not claiming it.
He is doing a brilliantly persuasive job.

This is not about logic or reality or history.
This is about perception and illusion.
It is about Ahmadinejad and about Ahmadinejad achieving his own goals.