• Aboriginals in North America
  • Beast Literature
  • Canadiana.1
  • Dances & Music
  • Europe: Ukraine & Russia
  • Fables and Fairy Tales
  • Fables by Jean de La Fontaine
  • Feasts & Liturgy
  • Great Books Online
  • La Princesse de Clèves
  • Middle East
  • Molière
  • Nominations
  • Posts on Love Celebrated
  • Posts on the United States
  • The Art and Music of Russia
  • The French Revolution & Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Voyageurs Posts
  • Canadiana.2

Micheline's Blog

~ Art, music, books, history & current events

Micheline's Blog

Tag Archives: dangerous lunatic

Ahmadinejab: dirty games

29 Thursday Sep 2011

Posted by michelinewalker in The Middle East

≈ 7 Comments

Tags

Agent provocateur, Ahmadinejad, conspiracy, dangerous lunatic, dirty games, East meets West, The Metropolitan Museum, WordPress

 

Islamic Tile

 

Let me return to a quotation I borrowed from Marcus Aurelius in an earlier blog entitled “Those who came back.”  I had stated that in his Meditations, Roman Emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) had written: “To stand up – or to be set up?” (7:1).

Well, this morning, on Radio-Canada, the French-language CBC, I heard that the US has to deal with offensive statements on the part of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  President Ahmadinejad is suggesting that the US itself, not Al-Qaeda, flew planes into the World Trade Centre, etc.

Yes, there are occasions when one is “set up.”  The persons attacked are made to look as though they were attacked by an outside party when, in fact, they have been attacked by themselves.  In the case of the 9/11 attacks, the attacker was Al-Qaeda and the attacked, innocent American citizens.  So I believe that President Ahmadinejad is a dangerous lunatic.

The United States does have an enemy within.  For instance, it would appear that, to a significant extent, the Tea Party is obstructionistic.  It creates obstacles that make it extremely difficult for the current administration to carry out its duties.

But in the case of the 9/11 attacks, the United States was the victim of Al-Qaeda.  It was not its own victim.  In other words, Al-Qaeda provoked the US causing the US to engage in two ruinous wars.  But in no way would the US order American pilots to fly planes into New York’s World Trade Centre Towers, into the Pentagon and, possibly, into another iconic monument, had it not been for the courage of the passengers of flight 93.

And now Ahmadinejad is drumming up attention by having the US play agent provocateur in its own demise, when the truth is that real agent provocateur Admadinejad.  Isn’t that a dirty game?  Could it be that Iranian President Ahmadinejad expects retaliative action on the part of the US?  Ahmadinejad is not Bin Laden, the leader of a major terrorist organisation, but he is an insufferable trouble-maker.

What does one do?

Occasionally, one must retaliate, but, at other times, one’s best retaliation is no retaliation.  In my opinion, the US should deny Ahmadinejab’s allegations and, once it has done so, rally and rebuild, putting people to work.

Last night, I watched a WordPress video on the capture of Bin Laden.  The Navy Seals acted as one man when they killed Bin Laden.  It was a superbly choreographed event.  Not that I endorse killing others, but that the World had to deal with a rotten apple to avoid further mischief.

It would be lovely to see Washington act in as unified a manner.

I have just received a Metropolitan Museum Holiday catalogue.  I was please to see that the current issue featured an East meets West collection and, by extension, a West meets East collection.  The Curator of the Islamic Art’s Department is Navina Najat Haidar.

Let us hope for greater solidarity among the inhabitants of planet Earth.

*   *   *

29 September 2011

0.000000 0.000000

Micheline's Blog

  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Europa

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 2,507 other subscribers

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Epiphany 2023
  • Pavarotti sings Schubert’s « Ave Maria »
  • Yves Montand chante “À Bicyclette”
  • Almost ready
  • Bicycles for Migrant Farm Workers
  • Tout Molière.net : parti …
  • Remembering Belaud
  • Monet’s Magpie
  • To Lori Weber: Language Laws in Quebec, 2
  • To Lori Weber: Language Laws

Archives

Calendar

February 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Jan    

Social

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • WordPress.org

micheline.walker@videotron.ca

Micheline Walker

Micheline Walker

Social

Social

  • View belaud44’s profile on Facebook
  • View Follow @mouchette_02’s profile on Twitter
  • View Micheline Walker’s profile on LinkedIn
  • View belaud44’s profile on YouTube
  • View Miicheline Walker’s profile on Google+
  • View michelinewalker’s profile on WordPress.org

Micheline Walker

Micheline Walker
Follow Micheline's Blog on WordPress.com

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com

  • Follow Following
    • Micheline's Blog
    • Join 2,475 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Micheline's Blog
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: