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Goering, Mr. Mohammad Khatami, moderates

The myth of moderates

By John Burtis

Sunday, September 10, 2006

We are witnessing, thanks to the resolute negligence of a feckless State Department, the inimical magic carpet ride of Mr. Mohammad Khatami, the former so called "moderate" President of Iran, as he trundles across america, blaming us for the world's ills, while soaking up praise from the blind among us.

Moderates in absolutist regimes have always been go to guys, even while they preside over a few dreadful activities at home.

Hermann Goering was one of those perceived moderates in a Germany loaded with radical Nazis. and folks from america and Great Britain rushed to see Mr. Goering, believing he was a man they could do business with because of his measured and equable ways. Even after he had helped Mr. Himmler and Mr. Heydrich compile the lists of those to be murdered during the Night of the Long Knives in June of 1934.

all those who visited Mr. Goering seemed to conveniently forget that this moderate, this easy going middle of the roader, first formed that little band of light weights --the Gestapo. a moderate indeed through these actions alone.

and so it is with Mr. Khatami, who the Boston Globe exclaims, in an encomium drenched hagiographical sketch worthy of earlier Volkischer Beobachter descriptions of Mr. Goering, "First, Khatami has been lavishly praised by world leaders" for his, "replacing hostility and confrontation with discourse and understanding."

The Globe goes on to explain, in their "Governor's got it wrong on Khatami" article from September 7th, that as, "a former minister of culture who was forced to resign in 1992 because of his moderate sensibility, Khatami has a remarkable record as president of Iran for eight years."

My, the panegyrics were just flying from the author, Kaveh afrasiabi, who served as a consultant to the same UN program, Dialogue among Civilizations, which he credits Mr. Khatami as "initiatiating the idea of" the whole conversazione.

all's well certainly, if the historical facts can in any way, shape, or form, add up to this monument to a man it seems, who must have dedicated his life to the betterment of his long suffering people. That is, if the Boston Globe, that wholly owned subsidiary of the New York Times, a paper known on a myriad of previous occasions to play fast and loose with the truth, can be trusted with their facts and the resulting depth of their obsequious blandishments.

However there is a different side to be found on the saint-like Mohammad Khatami, related to us by FrontPageMage.com, which has relied on those troublesome facts, which pop up from time to time, and can't be squelched by sheer dint of the weight of written acclamation.

While the Boston Globe has painted Mr. Khatami as wandering the halls of heroes in his attempts to better the welfare of his many peoples, it appears that he was also acting perhaps, in some cases, as less of the moderate and more of the dreaded hard liner.

Perhaps it was a slight oversight which caused the Globe and its author to miss the facts that during Mr. Khatami's remarkable record as president, he failed to turn over the master-minds of the attack on the complex in Dharan, which killed 19 US servicemen, despite repeated letters from President Clinton asking him to do so in 1996.

Somehow Mr. Khatami's public pledge to support the terrorist activities of Hezbollah and Hamas, while standing out in the open air with Sheikh Nasrallah and Sheikh Yassin, was overlooked.

No mention was made of Mr. Khatami's own magical disappearing act during the murder of Iranian protestors.

Forgetfulness seems to have clouded the memory of the author concerning the tossing of the Tehran students over the balustrades during that same period of discontent with Mr. Khatani's own regime, or of the public stonings of Iranian women and girls which followed.

Can oversight can be blamed for failing to mention the afflictions visited on the Jewish population of Iran during Mr. Khatami's years in power, when they routinely vanished while trying to flee or were jailed for spying?

FrontPage also explains, and we also now know, that Mr. Khatami oversaw the beginnings of the vast military build-up and the start of the nascent nuclear programs which threaten the local region, much of Europe, and the world today, with total destruction.

Oh, no, as a moderate, and as a man you can do business with, Mr. Khatami deserves all the praise the Boston Globe and the other "newspapers" and television talking heads can dump on him.

after all, as the moderate president of a moderate state like Iran, he presided over a country of laws, freedoms, and religious tolerance. Just like that described in that execrable article tossed off by the Globe.

Moderates in an evil regime are not moderate. They are just less evil.

and moderates in the employ of evil cannot be bargained with.


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