Iranian President

It has been said many times before but it is worthy of repetition: "Those that do not learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."

One of the most important lessons of history is that you cannot reason with the unreasonable and you cannot fight irrational behaviour with rationality.

As an example of this principle:
Hitler could not be reasoned with by Chamberlain’s appeasement, by the fact that he had a peace treaty with the Soviet Union, nor even by his own generals.

So it is with the current President of Iran. It is unrealistic to believe that Ahmadinejad’s irrational rantings about the United States, his pledge to destroy Israel, his funding of terrorism, and his pronouncements that Iran’s nuclear program is not weapon development can be dealt with by negotiation and reason.

Israel knows this and that is why it is so concerned about Iran’s nuclear program and even went so far as to ask the U.S. for special weapons and refueling assistance.

Because we in the West value individual life we try to negotiate with extremist regimes. But how does one reason with people who do not hold life sacred, even their own, and who are willing to blow themselves up so long as they take you with them.

We wish to point out that there is a difference between self-interest and fanaticism. One is logical and can be negotiated with logically. The other cannot.

We hope we are wrong in this instance, but history has shown that fanatics cannot be reasoned with. They must be destroyed ----- often at great cost.