President Ahmadinejad: Man of the Year

Aristocrat · Dec 25, 2006

President Ahmadinejad: Man of the Year
December 19, 2006
Person of the Year: Ahmadinejad

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Since 1927, the year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in his single-engine Spirit
of St. Louis, Time has devoted its final cover of the year to the Man of the
Year. The Lone Eagle was first.

In the 1930s and 1940s, FDR was the Man of the Year three times.
Stalin, Truman, and Churchill made it twice, though the selection of
Churchill in 1949 seems dubious, as he had been out of power four years,
while Mao was seizing China by the throat in the bloodiest revolution of the
century.

Hitler was chosen in the year of Anschluss and Munich, 1938. Gen.
Marshall made it twice, as did Ike, in 1944 as victor of Normandy and, 15
years later, as president.

In the 1960s and 1970s, JFK made it once, LBJ and Nixon twice.
Nixon's 1972 designation was shared with Henry Kissinger. In 1979, the dark
and brooding face gracing Time's cover was that of Iran's Ayatollah
Khomeini.

And Time got it right. For Time's Man of the Year, now Person of the Year,
is the figure who, for good or evil, dominates the news. Yet this year Time
could not bring itself to name the obvious choice.
Instead, it chose you and me, all of us citizens of the digital democracy
who create on the Worldwide Web. Why the cop-out?

Perhaps it was Ahmadinejad's hosting of a conference of Holocaust skeptics,
including David Duke, that caused Time to recoil. Perhaps it was fear that
the face of the Iranian president on the cover of Time would repel the
American people and be death for sales.

Surely that was the reasoning behind Time's refusal to name Osama bin Laden
in 2001, choosing Rudy Giuliani instead, though history is unlikely to
conclude that Rudy, his crowded hour notwithstanding, was the central figure
of that annus horribilis.

Richard Stengel, editor of Time, as much as concedes he could not bring
himself to choose by the traditional standard, if that meant choosing
Ahmadinejad: "It just felt to me a little off selecting him."

Understandably. But the refusal to select Ahmadinejad reveals an
unwillingness to confront hard truths. For putting his face on Time's cover
would have done a useful service, jolting America to a painful realization.
Not only George Bush, but the United States, its Arab allies and Israel, had
a dreadful year, as Iran emerged as first beneficiary of a war fought by
this country at a cost of 25,000 dead and wounded.

What the choice of Ahmadinejad would have said is that Iran is in the
ascendancy in the Middle East and it is not inconceivable that the United
States is headed for defeat, not only in Iraq but Afghanistan.

The Taliban have come back. The Pakistanis have ceded them sanctuary.
Some NATO nations are refusing to risk troops in combat. And it has been
some time since guerrillas who enjoyed a privileged sanctuary in that part
of the world failed to expel European soldiers perceived as imperial
occupiers.

Islamists control Somalia. Anti-Americanism is rampant in Lebanon - after
Condi Rice blocked a UN cease-fire resolution to stop Israel's bombing last
summer in what was supposed to be a campaign to clear Hezbollah from her
northern border. The Beirut government could fall at any moment or be forced
into a coalition with Hezbollah.

Even Bush's defense secretary concedes we are not winning in Iraq. It may
take a "surge" of 20,000 to 40,000 troops to stave off defeat before the end
of Bush's term. On the West Bank and Gaza, Hamas and Fatah appear on the
brink of civil war. The elections Bush demanded produced dramatic gains for
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine,
and Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraq.

Eighteen months ago, Ahmadinejad was the unknown mayor of Tehran.
Today, he is the visible face of anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism, both a
cause of and the personification of our failures. He has defied Bush's
demand that he give up the enrichment of uranium, split the Security
Council, mocked the Holocaust, called for the end of the Zionist state and
the expulsion of America from the Mideast, terrified the Sunni monarchs, and
united the Arab and Islamic masses behind his defiance.

His trip to the United Nations, where he ran circles around U.S.
journalists, was a diplomatic triumph. And he has done it all not with
military power - Iran would not last a week in an all-out war with the
United States and has no defense against Israel's nuclear weapons - but with
theatrics and rhetoric.

He inspires all who hate Israel and Bush's America. And, according to the
Zogby polling today, that is a majority which, in some once-friendly
nations, is approaching near unanimity.

Ahmadinejad, a man of words without real power, is the big winner of 2006,
because Bush, America, and Israel were the big losers.

Why do a billion Muslims prefer Ahmadinejad to America? That is the question
that needs to be addressed.
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Source:http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Temp/Temp-PresidentAhmadinejad-ManOfTheYear-PaulFromm.html

acronym · Dec 25, 2006

Well, is he man of the year, or person of the year?
As a good brainwashed fanatical muslim, he would object to being called a person, no?
That could (blasphemy) imply a woman could be as good as him.
You know that wont wash, its ....its un-islamic.

ratboy88 · Dec 25, 2006

Pat is getting old, i actually was surprised by Time's choice and agree with it. i probably would have gone with the founders of YouTube but it is the dynamic that is important. granted the internet has been around for quite some time, but the wholesale ability for joe six pack to publish video/media is the best tool freedom loving people have ever had. this marks the death of monopolistic control the "old media" has enjoyed since the birth of television.

as evident by the latest attempt of at&t and other telco's' to gain control of the internet, i believe Time magazine's staff recognize the loss of control they have witnessed this past year. the old gatekeepers have lost their power and the only way to get the genie back in the bottle is martial law, heaven forbid.

HoundDogOne · Dec 25, 2006

Quote from ratboy88:

Pat is getting old, i actually was surprised by Time's choice and agree with it. i probably would have gone with the founders of YouTube but it is the dynamic that is important. granted the internet has been around for quite some time, but the wholesale ability for joe six pack to publish video/media is the best tool freedom loving people have ever had. this marks the death of monopolistic control the "old media" has enjoyed since the birth of television.

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Sort of.

But it's really the emergence of the technology to easily/cheaply stream video.
The YouTube guys were just ** crooked enough ** to ignore all laws... and got lucky.
The whole phenomenon was happening anyway.

HoundDogOne · Dec 25, 2006

>> Why do a billion Muslims prefer Ahmadinejad to America?
>> That is the question that needs to be addressed.

It's not America... it's all Infidels.

One billion Muslims have been brainwashed as children...
To hate all infidels and countless other forms of intolerance...
Towards Jews, women, gays, etc, etc

And all haters will unite... as one can see.

Buchanan has clearly and completely lost his Moral Compass...
And is no longer relevant...
When his sh*t is published only in places like WorldNetDaily.
It's a very, very sad thing about what has happened with Pat.

ratboy88 · Dec 25, 2006

Quote from HoundDogOne:

Sort of.

But it's really the emergence of the technology to easily/cheaply stream video.

More...

thats why i wrote this statement: " i probably would have gone with the founders of YouTube but it is the dynamic that is important."

HoundDogOne · Dec 25, 2006

After re-reading the piece...
It's not so crazy after all...
And is widely circulated on places like here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/12/person_of_the_year_ahmadinejad.html

(1) Buchanan clearly compares "A" to Hitler.

(2) "A" is pretty much a media creation... largely a Western media creation.
Within Iran he is a puppet... nothing more.

(3) The "billion Muslim" line is disingenous...
Because the Arabs hate the Persians...
And "A" is a mortal enemy of all Sunni Muslims.

(4) Minus Israel and minus America... the Muslim world would be 99% as violent.
Israel and America are just "straw men" to excuse endless power struggles in the Mid-East.

(5) The lesson may be sinking in.
Only ruthlessness is respected in the Muslim world.
The Brits blowing up a "police station" in Basra today is a sign of things to come.

The Iranian nuke program will be gone by the end of 2007.

ratboy88 · Dec 25, 2006

i see you deleted your other post.

heymenth b · Dec 25, 2006

i vote for Putin as man of the century.....a nice checkmate to the ashkenazi scum now inhabiting ISNTREAL.

bsmeter2 · Dec 25, 2006

I'm convinced that any propaganda emanating from the Zionist neocon communist filth is all spurious. Everything they put out in the "liburruul" media is suspect and is put out with the main purpose of destroying america. America is being destroyed from within by communists in disguise aka neocon filth. Regular americans would be wise to do the exact opposite of what these filthy communist scum and their puppet government officials put out in the government controlled media.