Perhaps the recent attention that has been given to Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, and Cuba’s Fidel Castro, has now prompted Iran’s own member of the Axis of Evil, President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, to take center stage at the U.N. Racism Summit, and deliver the type of speech puts him back in the lead of “World Dictators we Love to Hate.”
Not that the Summit needed the little mad man from Iran opening his mouth again to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric, since a boycott by the US and other allied nations had already condemned the meeting to the status of “multi-national farce” for much the same fears.
Still, being true to what was expected of him, Ahmadinejad used the platform for attacks against Israel (as if Israel really needed a little more hate thrown their way). In his ever delusional manner, Ahamdinejad proceeded to pronounce Israel as a “cruel and repressive racist regime,” that is bent on mistreating Palestinians.
At least US President Obama had the good sense to avoid the whole thing. Kudos for Obama, for all the wrong actions I think he has taken during his first 100 days in office, at least he acted right on this one, calling the Summit in part a meeting that would be laced with “hypocritical and counterproductive" antagonism toward the Jewish state.
So repulsive was the Iranian Presidents speech that upon his attacks, several diplomats got up and left the hall while he spoke. Of course, in keeping with the current state of affairs in the Middle East, there were several other nations that applauded the speech, which is just as disturbing in its own right.
In the end, Ahamdinejad served to under score the limitations that the United Nations is faced with as a platform for world peace, or as a leading force in world politics. Not that we did not know that already, but it’s nice to be reminded every now and again that this overly self-important organization is not the answer to what the world needs; As for continuing the Summit against Racism, why bother?
No. not that racism is not an issue that should be properly addressed world wide, it’s just that as long as this platform continues to be used to propagate other agenda’s it will not achieve what it was set up to do…and isn’t that the real shame of letting a mad man like Ahamdinejad have his day in the sun? After all, why should this pint-size mad man address real racism around the globe when he has a political ax to grind?
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