The Crazy: It Just Gets Better

Note to Charles Krauthammer: Please stop bringing us the crazy, I have all I can handle, thanks!

In his excellent piece Mr Krauthammer explores the psycho-pathology of Iran's latest whack-a-mole president...

Everyone knows where Iran's nuclear weapons will be aimed. Everyone knows they will be put on Shahab rockets that have been modified so they can now reach Israel. And everyone knows that if the button is ever pushed, it will be the end of Israel.

But it gets worse. The president of a country about to go
nuclear is a confirmed believer in the coming apocalypse. Like Judaism and
Christianity, Shiite Islam has its own version of the messianic return -- the
reappearance of the Twelfth Imam. The more devout believers in Iran pray at the
Jamkaran Mosque that houses a well from which, some believe, he will emerge.

When Ahmadinejad unexpectedly won the presidential elections, he immediately gave $17 million of government funds to the shrine. Last month, Ahmadinejad said publicly that the main mission of the Islamic Revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam.

And as in some versions of fundamentalist Christianity, the second coming will be accompanied by the usual trials and tribulations, death and destruction. Iranian journalist Hossein Bastani reported Ahmadinejad saying in official meetings that the hidden imam will reappear in two years.

So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near, but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person. Indeed, with millennial bliss pending, he would have positive incentive to, as they say in Jewish eschatology, hasten the end.

Sweet, I'll see your crazy ass Iranian president and raise you an impotent UN.

Go ahead, read the whole thing, oh, and...

Merry Christmas!

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