Why this man should give us all nightmares...

From an extremely relevant and revealing column in the Daily Mail:

Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear bombs to deter attack from the 'Great Satan', America, let alone the two 'Little Satans', Israel and Britain? Sounds reasonable. But that pre-supposes that the Iranian regime is reasonable.

The mullah-mafia lied through their teeth for 18 years, denying they had a nuclear programme, despite their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

And all the evidence shows that they are lying now when they say they only want nuclear power for 'peaceful energy purposes', despite sitting on some of the largest oil reserves in the world.

But, alas, there's nothing which we would recognise as 'reasonable' about President Ahmadinejad, the small, bearded blacksmith's son from the slums of Tehran - who denies the existence of the Holocaust, promises to 'wipe Israel off the map' and who, moreover, urges Iranians to 'prepare to take over the world'.

The UN gave him until August 31 to reply to its package of proposals designed to stop his nuclear programme. Significantly he chose yesterday to, in effect, reject the UN ultimatum because yesterday was a sacred day in the Islamic calendar.

It is the day on which the Prophet Mohammed made his miraculous night flight from Jerusalem to heaven and back on Buraq, the winged horse.

As one Iranian exile told me yesterday: 'The trouble with you secular people is that you don't realise how firmly Ahmadinejad believes - literally - in things like the winged horse. By choosing this date for his decision, he is telling his followers that he is going to obey his religious duty.

'And he believes that his religious duty is to create chaos and bloodshed in the "infidel" world, in order to hasten the return of the Mahdi - the Hidden Imam. So don't expect him to behave, in your eyes, "reasonably".'

This is why the US, the UN, and any other body on the planet should be taking a hard line on the Iranian nuke issue. Ahmadinejad has no interest in negotiating about their nuclear program. In fact, just about a week ago, there was a story out that Iran was willing to negotiate...but as I read on, the real story was that Iran was saying, "We'll negotiate, but we're not giving up our nuclear program." Ostensibly, their nuclear program is for nothing more than energy purposes...which makes perfect sense, considering that Iran sits on top of one of the world's largest oil reserves. Iran, of all nations, has no need for nuclear energy. They aren't like us here in America, where we cannot expand our oil production because of the environmental lobby. Iran is run by the Imams, and what they say goes (by the way, for those in America who complain that there is too much entanglement between government and religion here, try living in the Middle East, where religion dictates the laws of the government). The only feasible explanation is that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, and this is now widely accepted as fact.

Iran is not only actively seeking nuclear weapons. They have been actively seeking the destruction of Israel. Iranian fighters were found among the Hezbollah dead in the recent conflict in Lebanon, and the rockets Hezbollah was launching into Israel were provided to them by Iran. The simple truth is that diplomacy will not stop Iran. If diplomacy were the answer, the problem would already be solved. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is no insurance against a zealous president who believes it is his religious duty to "create chaos and bloodshed." It is unreasonable to expect Ahmadinejad to act in a reasonable manner. He hasn't so far...why should we think he will in the future? The only time I have ever seen Ahmadinejad acting reasonably was when he was interviewed by Mike Wallace...whom he played like a violin.

Trusting Iran to turn from its quest for nuclear weapons is tantamount to expecting Al-Qaida to stop plotting terrorist attacks. It just isn't going to happen...and the longer the world seeks "diplomatic" solutions, the more drastic the measures we will have to take to stop the mounting threat posed by this hard-line Islamofascist state.