The John Batchelor Show

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Circus Twelvers

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There was a well-turned theater piece from the dreary Durban II confab at Geneva when a couple of French clowns shouted and danced during the routine rude remarks of Twelver faceman M. Ahmadinejad. What is fresh here is the hair-do of rainbow colors. It could be a mischievous fad. The Twelvers are not pleased when they are mocked. Protest puffs them up and makes them feel menacing, but farce is too close to their self-doubt of being ridiculous and marginal to history.  Ahmadinejad's remarks were unmemorable; he e-mailed in his speech.  I will have a full report of the episodes from Claudia Rosett, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, when she returns from Geneva.  There is the irony that POTUS Obama and StateSec HRC are disappointed in Ahmadinejad's remarks.  Disappointment may be the Obama administration's longest range weapons system -- as in, "Holocaust-denying is disappointing," or "stocking and arming Hizballah camps in Venezuela under the Chavez regime is disappointing."

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