I watched 60 minutes last night. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a madman.

Now that I got that out of the way, I found him to be entertaining and a wiley politician. He purposely avoided questions about Iran expanding the influence of its theocracy through Hezbollah and Hammas and rightfully countered by asking about the United States arming Israel.

Now, one thing that I found interesting and worth some thought was the fact that Israel was created out of thin air after the second world war. Why pick Judea and not somewhere else where high concentrations of Jews lived to create a Jewish state.

I haven’t done all my homework on all of this yet but I think it’s a different perspective worth looking at.

Life for Iran sucks at the U.N. as well but you have to admit. Talk of wiping Israel off the face of the earth and wanting to enrich uranium at the same time does raise an eyebrow. Yeeeeah I’m afraid that some countries aren’t going to be amiable to that.

What it gets down to is there are two competing philosophies. The United States wants constitutional democracies throughout the middle-east. The Arab leaders want to keep their kingdoms or, theocracies. It is their way and we in the U.S. should accept that.
 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also made another valid point about the tone at which the U.S. and a few other countries address Iran. Like it or not, Iran is a nation of people just like anyone else. Talking down to any nation is not getting anyone anywhere.

Other than that, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a madman and far more dangerous than I took for granted.