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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Mailing Address: America
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Perhaps all of us should be inured by now to the worldview ramblings of billionaires like Ted Turner and George Soros. Perhaps. But in remarks Tuesday night at a Reuters news service gathering billionaire Turner was in rare form. U.S. intervention in Iraq caused “incalculable damage,” that will require two decades to overcome “if we just act reasonably intelligently,” said he.
On Iraq: “It will go down in history, it is already seen in history, as one of the dumbest moves that was ever made by anybody. A couple of others that come to mind were the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the German invasion of Russia.” That war, Turner continued, “literally broke my heart. You don’t start wars just because you don’t like somebody…”
Of three world leaders in New York Tuesday — American President George W. Bush, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Citizen of the World Turner — two were in agreement. Ahmadinejad and Turner. Ahmadinejad insisted to the UN General Assembly that Iran’s nuclear program is “transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eye” of UN inspectors. President Bush, in addressing the UN, spoke to the people of Iran: “Your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation’s resources to fund terrorism, and fuel extremism, and pursue nuclear weapons.” Into that impasse steps Citizen of the World Turner to adjudicate, in the finest tradition of unaffiliated free-agent liberalism, the dispute before him. It’s a “joke,” said Turner, that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons if we can.
“They’re a soverign state. We have 28,000. Why can’t they have 10? We don’t say anything about Israel — they’ve got 100 of them approximately — or India or Pakistan or Russia.” And then this spokesman for the One World New Millenium issued his final verdict: “And, really, nobody should have them. They aren’t useable by any sane person.”
In a nation that lives daily under the threat of mortal danger, the signals from the left are powerful, clear and consistent: They don’t see threats, except those we cause. They see the world as a playground. If Georgie has 28,000 nukes, Ehud’s got 100, then of course Mahmoud should have 10. Let’s talk. The worldview that keeps coming out of the mouths of the anti-war left is the one that existed prior to 9/11. They simply do not get it. And that failure makes turning national leadership over to them a very dangerous prospect in a dangerous world. How many should Mahmoud have? Zero.
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