Track-A-’Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

Their craziness notwithstanding, even lunatics can stumble upon moments of lucidity when something of great import happens.

But not Mahmoud and the mullocracy.  In their apocalyptic fervor to acquire nuclear weapons and rain down death upon everyone that doesn’t submit to their insanity, the theocracy has succeeded in forcing together Israel and Saudi Arabia.

That that hasn’t set the alarm bells ringing in Tehran is final proof of their detachment from reality.  The only thing that keeps North Korea in check is the desire of its leadership to survive.  This is the most fundamental aim of nation-states, and none operate on a basis other than this.

Except, perhaps, for Iran.  Because it is increasingly evident that the normal rules do not apply.  Assuming Iran to be a rational actor is the first mistake that Barry’s made, compounded by the second: mistaking Ahmadinejad for a politician, instead of what he really is – a madman.

Ahmadinejad is not interested in re-election; he doesn’t care about improving the lives of those under his rule; and the thought of strengthening his nation-state is anathema to him.  As he’s stated numerous times, he sees himself as a prophet, the man who will bring about the reappearance of the Twelfth (or Hidden) Imam, which – you guessed it – will also herald a planetary-level bloodshed of non-believers, sinners, Jews, etc.

Mahmoud, though, is so excitable that he seems to be mixing up the order – he can’t decide whether the appearance of the imam will lead to death and destruction, or the reverse, that death and destruction will lead to the appearance of the imam.  So he’s diligently preparing for both eventualities.

It is undoubtedly good that two countries of the enmity of Israel and Saudi Arabia have found common cause against a threat to them both.  With Barry refusing to do anything meaningful, the responsibility to take action will fall to others.

On a surface level, this can be interpreted as a positive development for the US.  America cannot be expected to solve all of the world’s problems, nor should it be expected to do so.

The possibility that Barry’s inaction could lead to a solution being formulated elsewhere, however, is a lucky break that Barry will shamelessly claim he instigated, ironically, through his own failure to act.

There is another, worse consequence, though.  Should this Israeli/Saudi tag-team materialize, it will be for the best, this time.

But we will not be so fortunate the next time.  Because the example will then have been set of by-passing the US on an issue of critical global importance.

After which could follow a barrage of nightmarish scenarios.

Venezuela and Cuba deciding to “liberate” the people of Colombia?

China and Russia jointly destroying Taiwanese independence?

You name it, someone, somewhere is thinking about it.

In what is simultaneously the most unpredictable and least surprising piece of news that I’ve read in a long time (trust me, it’ll become clearer as you read), it turns out that Iran supposedly carries out more sex-change operations than any other country aside from the home of the lady-boy, Thailand.

The Guardian reports here on what will purportedly be Iran’s first transsexual marriage, between a woman known only as Shaghayegh and her best friend from school, who recently underwent sex-change surgery to become a man.

If your brain is on the verge of shutting down through trying to reconcile this news with the theocracy’s penchant for barbarically persecuting (not to mention executing) homosexuals, then here’s the kicker: the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a religious fatwa in which he stated that there was no religious restriction on sex-change procedures.

Can you guess why?

That’s right!

In an attempt to rid Iran of homosexuality, which is already outlawed there.  A more intolerant illusion of tolerance is not possible.  While the theocracy, and Ahmadinejad in particular, cannot stand the thought of homosexuals, they can abide – if not actively encourage – the presence of transgender people?  How does that make any sense?

It doesn’t, of course.  The mullocracy is riven by deep contradictions, this just being one of the most bizarre.

No doubt some on the Left will be all too ready to accept this as a sign of the Iranian regime’s much-fabled but non-existent capacity for moderation, just as they claim that the leadership cannot be as zealously anti-Semitic as they evidently are, given the presence within Iran of the Middle East’s largest Jewish population (outside of Israel itself, that is).  Here’s the thing about that: Jewish people in Iran number around 20-25,000, by most accounts.  Out of a population of 66 million.  The Jewish populace therefore equates to a whopping 0.04 percent of Iran’s total population.

If this could not appear to get any worse, think again: accounts of forced sex-change operations are widespread, done in an horrific effort to preserve the mullah’s fantasy world where homosexuality doesn’t exist.  If you’re in Iran and homosexual, the choice facing you is between bad and worse.

But never mind all that.  Instead, let’s attribute to the theocracy all the virtues of compassion, tolerance and sanity that they so plainly lack and do nothing to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons.

It’ll all even out in the end, right?

Cross-posted at The Green Room.

Oh deary me.

Less than 48 hours after President Obama decided to reward Tehran for its complete and utter obstinacy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – the man with such intimate knowledge of his own country that he even knows that not a single homosexual resides there – has now decided that the bi-lateral negotiations are not going to cover the nuclear issue, after all.

Well, who would want to talk about such a trifling issue, really?

This is precisely why negotiations without preconditions were not offered previously, and can only come as a surprise to those who are willfully blind as to the nature and history of the Iranian theocracy.  For everyone else (read: all those not affiliated with the Democratic Party in any way whatsoever), this is nothing but another step on the path towards the imminent Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons.

How our leaders are still duped by Iran’s time-honed strategy of offer-and-rescind is beneath my ability to explain.

The consequences, however, are far more easily elucidated: Iran gains a propaganda victory through making it appear that the Great Satan has capitulated; having already agreed to negotiations in principle, the Obama administration may still go through with them in a futile attempt to salvage whatever scraps of face remain after such a swift slap round the chops; and, most importantly for the mullahs, they gain yet more crucial time to dedicate to their weaponization schemes.

There are no easy choices and few good outcomes on this issue, but the worst by far remains Iranian possession of nukes.  At least with North Korea we have a somewhat compliant China (mostly) helping to keep the Dear Leader within the confines of his playpen, but who could fulfill a similar role with regard to Iran?

The Bush administration’s strategy veered schizophrenically from John Bolton’s singleminded determination to prevent Iran from obtaining nukes to eventually settling for merely slowing down their development horizon.  The Obama administration’s strategy, from what I can gather, consists almost entirely of talking nicely to an abhorrent collection of misogynists, bigots, racists and anti-Semites, and hoping for the best.

The complacency is stunning.  Time is running out to do anything substantive and if President Obama’s brainwave is to simply run down the clock and shrug his shoulders in resignation once the theocracy has turned the nightmare into reality, then he’s doing a bang-up job.

Otherwise, serious thinking caps (if not military helmets) need to go on right now.