Islamist rhetoric
Sep. 6th, 2013 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
come_to_thinkRecent news item:
An Iranian strategic expert has warned that one of President Obama's daughters will be kidnapped and raped if America attacks Syria.
(The headline, in MailOnline, calls him a "diplomat".) That reminded me of something that appeared in the New York Times Magazine while we were gearing up to drive Iraq out of Kuwait:
News agencies quoted the [information] minister as saying that if war broke out, American airmen shot down over Iraq would be eaten. Later, this account was clarified. What [he] intended to say, officials explained, was that the Americans would be eaten by dogs, not by humans.
It must be kind of fun to talk like that.
An Iranian strategic expert has warned that one of President Obama's daughters will be kidnapped and raped if America attacks Syria.
(The headline, in MailOnline, calls him a "diplomat".) That reminded me of something that appeared in the New York Times Magazine while we were gearing up to drive Iraq out of Kuwait:
News agencies quoted the [information] minister as saying that if war broke out, American airmen shot down over Iraq would be eaten. Later, this account was clarified. What [he] intended to say, officials explained, was that the Americans would be eaten by dogs, not by humans.
It must be kind of fun to talk like that.
