--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/23/07 11:09:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't get why when Ahmadinejad says the US and Israel will be > destroyed, invariably someone misquotes him as saying Iran will > destroy them. He has not said that-- at least I haven't read it > anywhere. I take his speech as referring to the possibiity of karmic > retribution coming to both countries, not that Iran will be that agent > of karmic retribution. > > > > Then he needs to state clearly that it is his belief that the destruction of > Israel and the United States will be an act of God
Or that the U.S. and Israel will self-destruct. and Iran will have > nothing to do with it, while he makes his nuclear weapons. Otherwise it clearly > comes off as a threat. When you are on the receiving end of such a threat, by a > hostile country that sponsors terrorism and one that is hell bent on making > their own nuclear weapons,to take it as a "possibility" that maybe he just > means your Karma is going to catch up with you would be absolutely foolish and > suicidal. Given that Iran is never going to be capable of "destroying" the United States and Israel, it seems to me it's foolish and suicidal to take what he said any other way than as a prediction that we're on a course leading to our own destruction (such as by taking what he said as a threat).
