When Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, contended that the Holocaust did not happen, we let him get away with it. That is, the press allowed his remarks to see the light of day. And world leaders did not exactly condemn him nor bar him from international meetings and activities. The United Nations had even provided him several times a forum for his verbal attacks against the West.
But if that pronouncement was meant to provoke, the latest one, “September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan,” should persuade every reasonable human being that this guy is crazy. This is cause for serious concern, given that Ahmadinejad is overseeing a nuclear program that can cause great instability in the Middle East.
If world leaders, the UN, and the press will unite in condemning, ostracizing, and isolating Ahmadinejad, perhaps a regime change in Iran, waged from outside, is possible. Conversely, if the US and the rest of the world continue to engage Ahmadinejad in the name of diplomacy, they do nothing but lend legitimacy to a president who at best cannot distinguish a truth from a lie.
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