He's an impressive fellow, this guy. He really is. He's obviously smart as hell.
(See, actually I don't like my apocalyptic megalomaniacs to be smart. That never ends well.)
"You'll find him an interesting man," he said. "I expected more of a firebrand. I don't think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels ... about the American administration and the Zionist state. He comes across as more rational than I had expected."
How does Wallace expect a person gets to be the leader of his country? How can you interview every leader in the world for the past century and be so clueless? Even in tyrannical regimes you don't rise to the top merely by being evil and nuts. Here's what Churchill wrote in 1937 about the British reaction to Hitler:
Those who have met Herr Hitler face to face in public business or on social terms have found a highly competent, cool, well-informed functionary with a highly agreeable manner, a disarming smile, and few have been unaffected by a subtle personal magnetism. Nor is this impression merely the dazzle of power. He exerted it on his companions at every stage in his struggle, even when his fortunes were in the lowest depths.
("Hitler & His Choice" from Great Contemporaries)
Let's not forget what Chamberlain said after his first meeting with Herr H:
In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word.
I guess he looked into Hitler's soul. Meanwhile, ol' Abomb himself seems to be running for Democratic Senator from the Nutmeg State.
On what the "conducive conditions" would be for Iran to establish relations with the U.S., the president said, "Well, please look at the makeup of the American administration, the behavior of the American administration. See how they talk down to my nation. And this recent resolution passed about the nuclear issue, look at the wording. They have given us — presented us with a package which we are studying right now. We even gave them a date for our response. Ignoring that, they passed a resolution. They want to build an empire. And they don't want to live side-by-side in peace with other nations. The American government, sir, it is very clear to me they have to change their behavior and everything will be resolved. (George W. Bush) believes that his power emanates from his nuclear warhead arsenals. The time of the bomb is in the past, it's behind us. Today is the era of thoughts, dialogue and cultural exchanges."
I'm scrambling to get the bomb because its era is behind us. I'm all about thoughts, dialogue and cultural exchanges: just so long as those thoughts are of the eradication of Israel, the dialogue is about how far into the sea to sweep her, and the cultural exchanges are nuclear secrets from China & North Korea to Iran and Islamofascism from it.
Let's go back to Churchill on Hitler:
Meanwhile he makes speeches to the nations, which are sometimes characterized by candor and moderation.
Recently he has offered many words of reassurance, eagerly lapped up by those who have been so tragically wong about Germany in the past. Only time can show, but, meanwhile, the great wheels revolve; the rifles, cannon, the tanks, the shot and shell, the air-bombs, the poison-gas cylinders, the airplanes, the submarines, and now the beginnings of a fleet flow in ever-broadening streams from the already largely war-mobilized arsenals and factories of Germany.
Shameful.
