Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Ahmadinejad: "the future belongs to Iran"

On Sunday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's President, said that “it is clear the future belongs to Iran.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100919/ap_on_re_us/un_ahmadinejad_interview

Ahmadinejad's words reminded me of the chilling scene in the 1972 film Cabaret, in which a Hitler youth member begins singing the song “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” at a beer garden. During the course of the song, most of the people there join in.
Before posting this item, I checked on google to see if others had written of Ahmadinejad’s words, and the film. I found a couple of people who had—including, on Monday, an essayist for “The Corner,” the column which appears on the website of the National Review; the essayist's comments then appeared on a number of other websites.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/247133/will-future-belong-iran-benjamin-weinthal