>>>>>>>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342489,00.html
>>>>>>>According to Mahmoud Ahamdinejad and the Islamic Republic News Agency:
>>>>>>>http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-203/0612204702132142.htm
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>>>>>>Ahamdinejad doesn't seem to understand that if he didn't act all crazy and anti-semetic, then people probably wouldn't really care all that much.
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>>>>>I think he understands very well.
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>>>>Everyone that has played the anti-american, wacko card, is eventually taken out, contained or somehow sidelined.
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>>>I agree but I hope it is containment and sidelined, not "taken out" because that just leads to more fanatics and mad men martyrs. Interesting poll results in Iran.
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>>One counter-example. Taking out Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito seemed to work. Europe and Japan didn't have a backlash of facists.
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>They came at the end of long and bloody wars for both sides. Ahmadinejad would be a pre-emptive strike. And the world is different today in so many ways.

The long bloody war aspect is irrelevant to the point I was making, but the pre-emptive poing is very valid. Sadly you have to let these guys commit a war crime to galvanize support for action against them.