Dowd: Depths of Ditziness

Maureen Dowd, (via RCP) that aging schoolgirl who writes for the NY Times, defends terrorist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, a man who has repeatedly and openly threatened Israel with nuclear destruction, defied UN calls for Iran to stop its production of nuclear weapons, and as we heard in Chicago recently, tortures students.

She refers to him playfully as "I'm a Dinner Jacket" and a "bogyman" and conveniently forgets his 30 year track record as terrorist, beginning with taking hostages in the US embassy in Tehran under the Carter administration. And Iran brutally murders its own citizens, including stoning women and sentencing children to death. Their chief nuclear negotiator has just resigned, signaling Iran's intent to continue developing nukes, with this unstable dictator in charge and threatening. Dowd:

Hit with sticks, the bogyman responded with sticks. He said that Iran will not negotiate with anyone about its right to nuclear technology.

He's a "victim" to liberals, you see, claiming "rights". And Dowd defends anti-Semite and isolationist Pat Buchanan (no longer a Republican and on the fringe, comfortable with the Left):

As Pat Buchanan noted on “Hardball,” “Cheney and Bush are laying down markers for themselves which they’re going to have to meet. I don’t see how ... Bush and Cheney can avoid attacking Iran and retaining their credibility going out of office.”

The US has just taken tough diplomatic sanctions against Iran, the surest way to stave off any military action. This of course depends on our "allies" in Europe supporting the sanctions. In this, at least, we have France's Sarkozy on our side. His father left Hungary for freedom in France. Presumably Dowd finds this laughable as well.

No doubt Dowd also forgets Cheney's recent visit to Pakistan resulted in the capture of a high level Taliban terrorist and al Qaeda ally.

And on the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, the president who called an evil empire by its name, and brought down the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, the Iranians released our hostages.

Maureen Dowd, the prima donna of the NY Times, defending terrorists and bigots. Plumbing the depths of ditziness.