Ahmadi gets the "Rhetorical Question of the Week" award due to the fact that just about 80% of the letter is made up of them...
I found it an interesting read, but one that is extraordinary suspect since the apparent author is someone who has denied that the Holocaust existed and who has supplied MILLIONS of dollars and TONS of weapons to militant regimes in the Middle-East that are the poster-children of "terrorism" and have been for decades...
I think since he knows he has China and Russia indirectly backing him unless he does something outright nuts, he's sensing victory on the nuclear issue and has somewhat poetically "rubbed" our collective noses in it. He even mentions the "ineffectiveness" of the UN in a roundabout fashion, so that tells me that IAEA and the UN can toss any damn sanction or resolution they want at him and he's going to keep on enriching Uranium until he runs out of the stuff.
The last page was the most interesting by far (at least to me). He finally sinks some teeth into his accusations and actually vents his concerns rather well, especially about the Muslim concern of their culture and how the West has apparently "corrupted" it.
I may be in the minority, but I would actually like to see the State Dept. or Bush (through the MASSIVE help of his speechwriters) send a note back; I think the Muslim population would respond much better to the somewhat alien Western mindset to a small degree if they were given a chance to read a thoughtful but sincere correspondence about our concerns with Iran's present leadership.
I wonder how much of it would get past the censors in Iran?
Whether Ahmadi knows it or not, he's just given the White House a proverbial loudspeaker to not only address Iran directly, but the Muslim world in general about US fear, doubt and uncertainty. Unfortunately, the politics of putting up a strong face will probably cloud any real chance of a response, though.
