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Dec. 7th, 2006 10:35 am...it almost made me spew my hot chocolate this morning:
"Big news, as whether or not Iran becomes fully “Ahmadinejadized” will depend on who succeeds Khamenei. The leading candidates include Mahdi’s archrival, Rafsanjani, and his “spiritual mentor,” Mesbah-Yazdi, a hardcore jihadist nut....Think of him as the Emperor Palpatine to Ahmadinejad’s Vader. And, I guess, Rafsanjani as Jabba the Hutt."
From hotair.com, posted by AllahPundit. You can find the rest of the blog entry here.
The source for the entry, Michael Ledeen, is fairly well-known for his writings on combating Islamist terrorism. My first exposure to his work was in Contemporary International Politics, and his book The War Against the Terror Masters. Didn't agree with everything he wrote, but he presented some pretty good arguments. Thus, his analysis on this little nugget might be equally as good.
I guess time will tell. In this situation, I'm not sure there's a lesser of the three weevils.
"Big news, as whether or not Iran becomes fully “Ahmadinejadized” will depend on who succeeds Khamenei. The leading candidates include Mahdi’s archrival, Rafsanjani, and his “spiritual mentor,” Mesbah-Yazdi, a hardcore jihadist nut....Think of him as the Emperor Palpatine to Ahmadinejad’s Vader. And, I guess, Rafsanjani as Jabba the Hutt."
From hotair.com, posted by AllahPundit. You can find the rest of the blog entry here.
The source for the entry, Michael Ledeen, is fairly well-known for his writings on combating Islamist terrorism. My first exposure to his work was in Contemporary International Politics, and his book The War Against the Terror Masters. Didn't agree with everything he wrote, but he presented some pretty good arguments. Thus, his analysis on this little nugget might be equally as good.
I guess time will tell. In this situation, I'm not sure there's a lesser of the three weevils.