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They managed to do it.
Two leading U.S. journalists from the two most important U.S. papers, Bret Stephens from The Wall Street Journal and Roger Cohen from The New York Times, succeeded in the impossible. In The Iran Debate on Friday, April 30, they debated for an hour and a half without mentioning the very crux of the problem... [snip]
"In this context, mutually assured destruction, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, would have no meaning. At the end of time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter will be the final destination of the dead--hell for the infidels, and heaven for the believers. For people with this mindset, MAD [mutual assured destruction] is not a constraint; it is an inducement."
They managed to debate for 90 minutes without mentioning the word Mahdi to whom Ahmadinejad devoted a considerable part of his address to the UN General Assembly... [snip]
The failure to tackle the essence of the problem, i.e. to put the Iranian threat in the context of jihad, Shi'a eschatology and the ineffectiveness of MAD shows a profound malaise of our civilization. We cannot protect ourselves since we are unable to do so because political correctness prevents us from defining the problem...
["Why can't we just be friends?" A: They've no wish to be our friends, they seek to dominate us through intimidation based on murder and the threat of national martyrdom.]
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