I see that the Heritage Foundation and the PMOI are planning a spring gala. Tomorrow BC04 political assassin Jerome Corsi, PhD, author of "Unfit for Command", will be doing a brown bag stand-up gig at the HF's Lehrman Auditorium & Petting Zoo. The title of his routine is "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians", so he'll be working the body of material originally created by Tel Aviv commediens and the Persian Moonies. His spin on the Debka schtick is, unsurprisingly, that the market for domestic (US) political assassins is poised for growth. Kind of cheery in its own wierd way. "I just flew back from Iran and boy are my arms tired. bud-a-boom."
The PMOI is now floating a new theory-of-Zoroastrian-Evil-and-Mannichean-Everythingness. In this episode the Criminally Insane Mullahs are going to skip production, assembly, batteries required, and buy three warheads on the open warhead market. This latest Persian Moonie ism is coincidently floated just days after 30 or so journalists trooped through the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, then the uranium conversion facility at Isfahan, and reported no moonbats.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, who can't actually do stand-up in the States without complications, since he is a status terrorist, has the job of being the Persian Moonie Spoke in Paris. The Paris gig is a lot cushier than being in the bag at Camp Ashraf, where the celibacy-between-married-couples-and-everyone-else rule still applies inside the camp, even if General Sanchez lets them carry weapons, drive Hummers, and test drive M1A1 Abrams tanks outside the camp. He's now alerting the world that swarthy mustashioed men with bulging suitcases stuffed with geldt are trolling the Rodeo Avenues of the world armaments markets, looking for much more bang for their bucks. Logically, this would put them in Moscow, doing a buy, or on K Street, driving nails in the coffin of the "loose Soviet-era nukes" program.
Meanwhile, in the saner bits of the world ...
Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, Lisa Margonelli reviews three books vastly more interesting. David Harris' The Crisis: The President, the Prophet and the Shah -- 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam (Little, Brown; 470 pages; $26.95), Afschineh Latifi's memoire "Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution and Leaving Iran" (Regan Books; 320 pages; $24.95), and The Muslim World After 9/11 (Rand; 525 pages; $40 paperback).
An editorial in the Salt Lake Trib today reads:
What is most alarming is the commission's conclusion that it has no confidence that the U.S. government knows what is going on today in Iran and North Korea.
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Part of the problem was wholesale American ignorance about Islamic culture. The intelligence community today is the same one that was built to counter the Soviet threat. In broadest terms, the commission is telling the nation that it must restructure its intelligence services to deal with a different kind of enemy.
We should have got that message by now.