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And here's some other food-for-thought about the UN: First, knowing these worthless apparatchiks and terrorist sympathizers at the UN, it's highly doubtful that anything substantive will be accomplished at that venue. Second, when have UN sanctions ever really worked? Sanctions only hurt the common man in any given society, while the corrupt elites, who know how to work the system, find ways to manipulate or circumvent sanctions in order to survive and even thrive. A perfect case in point is Saddam's Iraqi regime. The UN Oil-for-Food program was initially developed to counter the debilitating effects of sanctions upon the Iraqi people after the Gulf War and prior to Saddam's ouster. Instead, Saddam and his cronies co-opted the UN Oil-for-Food program, and used it as their own little slush fund. The inept and corrupt UN was part and parcel of those shenanigans.

In short, we're not going to be able to depend upon the UN, or the European socialists for that matter, to significantly aid us with the "Iran problem". They might help marginally with a bit of public condemnation of Iran and some futile sanctions, but the hard-lifting will have to be accomplished by the US and Israel. And what about hitting Iran in the wallet where it's bound to hurt? Well, it's pie-in-the-sky to think that the Europeans would be the tiniest bit inclined to take a principled stance, and support a Naval Blockade that would: a) shut down the Strait of Hormuz, and, b) prevent the export of Iranian oil. Europeans depend on that oil, and they're not going to absorb any kind of temporary hit to rein-in Iran, even if Iran is destined to come back and bite them in the derrière at some later point. The Europeans, who are typical Leftists, are short-term thinkers. They need to adequately grasp that Iran despises all of Western civilization, and it's only a matter of time before they feel the full fury of that wayward regime.

Now let's examine the Iranian leadership more closely: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahocracy (Teheran's "revolutionary" ruling class comprised of hundreds of mullahs -- Muslim clerics -- who are in pivotal political positions) have made no bones about the fact that they're committed to targeting America, the "Great Satan", and Israel, the "Little Satan", which are deemed intolerably decadent and worthy of destruction by Radical Islamist standards. There's no denying that the hard-line leaders of Iran are a bunch of lunatics, particularly Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who might very well be one of the terrorists who held the American hostages during the famed 444-day episode at the American Embassy in Tehran, circa 1979-1981. Several of the former hostages have come forward to identify Ahmadinejad as one of their captors, and if confirmed, demonstrates that Ahmadinejad has bona fides of long standing within the realm of terrorism. Let's just say there are many other disturbing allegations regarding Ahmadinejad's past floating about.

But there's so much more that's disconcerting about this bizarre individual who is obsessed with a messianic figure from antiquity and an apocalyptic cult. Ahmadinejad believes that he's paving the way for the "second coming" of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi, who will usher in a new era. Ahmadinejad is no saintly John the Baptist. Rather, the Iranian leader appears bent on perpetrating chaos and destruction.

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