"No turmoil, then; just Iranian nukes."

"This has the effect of deleting morality entirely. So Yale is left with no way to tell good from evil, and I am left with Hashemi in my dining hall."

"Teheran must have spent this afternoon laughing up its collective sleeve. As Saddam did in the last years of his regime, the mullahs have spent their oil money wisely to capture at least one and probably two of the five vetoes on the UNSC. There will be no further progress on this matter, at least not at the UN, while we allow Russia to run interference for Iran long enough for them to develop working prototypes of nuclear weapons. "

“Power for me means that the Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet.”

UPDATE: Did I forget to mention that there isn't much there there anyway? (HT Q&O)

"Sir, where was the Nuclear material transported to?"

Can you say "horse-shit"? I thought you could.

NYeT! Part 4,757,376

"Anybody disagree with that?" [...crickets...]

"The case of Abdul Rahman, like the organized Danish cartoon apoplexy (still continuing in some parts of the world, where Muslim demagogues are still using it to whoop up anti-Western hysteria), brings us face to face with Islamic doctrines inimical to the survival of our civilization. And here, I wish I could say “Islamist”, but the unpleasant truth is, Islamic doctrines. For the Shariah principles in question are shared by all four of the Sunni schools of jurisprudence (Maliki, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Shafi'i), plus the Shia school. There is no “sixth school” that recognizes religious and civic freedom, in any way that resembles what these expressions mean in the West."

"When Nancy Pelosi signs on for this kind of humint, please let me know."

"This may also account for the fact that 95% of homicide warrants in Los Angeles county have illegal immigrants as their subjects."

Religion Cult of Pieces Update

The Koran’s sura 4:89 declares: “They would have you disbelieve as they themselves have disbelieved, so that you may all be alike. Do not befriend them until they have fled their homes for the cause of Allah. If they desert you, seize them and put them to death wherever you find them. Look for neither friends nor helpers among them.” (Emphasis added.) Koranic passages are taken by believers to be the words of God Himself.

To the extent there is interpretive gloss on these scriptures, most authoritative are the Hadiths — the traditions and admonitions of Mohammed and his companions. According to Abdullah Ibn Abbas, Mohammed’s cousin and among the most influential educators in both Sunni and Shiite traditions, the prophet’s instructions in this regard were quite clear: “Kill him who changes his religion.” Indeed, as Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer recounted in The Myth of Islamic Tolerance, the only real argument in Islam about apostasy pertains to the nature of the penalty — beheading or some different method. There is no credible dispute about whether it is a high crime or whether death is an appropriate sentence.

My beautifully brazen bud Bruce Bawer. A deadly Fisk in pink no less ;)

The Tinfoil Apocalypse: Version Cicero

Cicero points out that this is the headline that has already effectively come to pass -- we've just got our heads so far into the sand that we can't admit it:

"Hezbollah to Go Nuclear This Year, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah Says"

And here's a snippet to know why you need to go read it:

Looks pretty bad, doesn't it? Cultists dedicated to our destruction, answerable to no one but their vengeful god, playing with nukes? To not consider Hezbollah and Persian Shi'a as morally and strategically interchangeable is to tragically misinterpret the hallmark of our time.

A religious suicide cult funded by billions of our petrodollars obtaining weapons of mass destruction has no historical precedent. None. The rules of engagement will be completely upended. Familiar metaphors of superpower warring will be unworkable and irrelevant. Watching sovereign entities flail and dither like paper dolls before their ultimate post-sovereign challenger indicates that the threshold is beneath our feet, if we care to look down.

This is no satire. These are the stakes in 2006.

If Shi'a's radical mullahs manage to proliferate their nukes like smoke through their post-sovereign proxies, certain as-yet-to-be-named cities will unexpectedly fall through trapdoors. No one will lay claim to the atrocities. It need only happen once. If London, or Paris, or New York, or Detroit, or even Fresno falls into oblivion, our well-oiled socioeconomic global merry-go-round stops. Indefinitely. Because of the threat of mass destruction, all borders will be shut. All ports closed. All shipping stopped. Air travel halted. Since the very infrastructure of modern commerce will be the delivery device for Shi'a's nukes, that infrastructure will be indefinitely frozen solid. It won't be an option. There won't be a debate.

Got your attention yet? It's pretty sad when I'm an optimist with my theory that Katrina may have been worse than the Tinfoil Apocalypse...

ABDUL RAHMAN UPDATE: "Is it just me, or does it feel like a giant, cosmic gauntlet has been thrown down from on High? Like in this Lenten season, leading up to Easter, the Christian nations are being put to a test..."

"I was stunned to learn that a black child was more likely to grow up living with both parents during slavery days than he or she is today, according to sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin." (HT Glenn)