iranian existential threat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just gave his official explanation to the Israeli people for the deaths on the Mavi Marmara. And guess whose fault it was. (Are you ready for this?) Iran!... It's an easy leap for minds trapped in a sense of powerlessness and victimhood that "is nothing less than pathological." That's how Henry Siegman, former head of the American Jewish Congress, described the twisted logic... ››read more

DobsonDuring his radio show, James Dobson, chairman of the board of Focus on the Family, discussed this Iran bad hallucination and “existential threat” with “prophecy expert” Joel Rosenberg, a novelist who likes to speculate that the “crisis” in the Middle East is a prelude to the end of the world. For Rosenberg, it’s all about Gog and Magog and the end times, the sort of mental flatulence neocons love. “The world looked at Hitler and just didn’t believe him and tried to appease him the way we’re hearing in Washington today,” Dobson said. “You know, the President seems to me does understand this, as I told you from that meeting I had with him the other day, but even there it feels like somebody ought to be standing up and saying, ‘We are being threatened and we are going to meet this with force—whatever’s necessary.’”

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