Iran just wants to reduce “global warming”

For the last 7-8 years, many on the left have said, repeatedly, that we must understand our adversaries. We shouldn’t rush to judgement and declare that we are “right”, and that they are “wrong”. There is no “evil”, just misunderstanding between peoples and of ideas.

So, I’m very confused by the concern over Iran. Clearly, Iranian President Ahmedinejad has been listening to the global discussion on “man-made” global warming and has realized that the most important thing that he can do is to swiftly move his economy forward with “green jobs” — those that don’t increase the “carbon footprint” of the average Iranian citizen. So building a nuclear-based economy is a very rational strategy from a very rational leader. (We all know that his comments about “Blowing Israel off the face of the earth” and his holocaust denying are all just political speak for his internal audience. He doesn’t really mean these things, does he?). Also despite the fact that the leading “climate change” researchers have been cooking the books on the science (Check here and here for a Financial Times editorial and a Sunday London Times piece on the destruction of data), we all know that the science is “settled”.

If the left truly believed the nonsense that they spouted during the Bush years regarding our enemies, and if they really believed that global warming is akin to armegeddon, they should be making speeches endorsing the Iranians move toward a greener future. They should just try to be more… understanding.

(NB: This piece was written with my tongue in my cheek)

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