But what about the strawberries?
The Isaac Newton of our age has a mathematical double proof that the US will not attck Iran. AFP:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sought to justify his confidence the United States will not attack Iran, saying the proof comes from his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in God, the press reported on Monday…
“In some discussions I told them ‘I am an engineer and I am examining the issue. They do not dare wage war against us and I base this on a double proof’,” he said in the speech on Sunday, reported by the reformist Etemad Melli and Kargozaran newspapers.
“I tell them: ‘I am an engineer and I am a master in calculation and tabulation. “I draw up tables. For hours, I write out different hypotheses. I reject, I reason. I reason with planning and I make a conclusion. They cannot make problems for Iran.’”
Ahmadinejad has long expressed pride in his academic prowess. He holds a PhD on transport engineering and planning from Tehran’s Science and Technology University and is the author several of scientific papers.
The deeply religious president said his second reason was: “I believe in what God says.” “God says that those who walk in the path of righteousness will be victorious. What reason can you have for believing God will not keep this promise.”
“I am an engineer and I am a master in calculation and tabulation. I draw up tables. For hours, I write out different hypotheses. I reject, I reason. I reason with planning and I make a conclusion.” That is quite a disturbing sentence, Ahmadinejad with his calculations, tables, hypotheses and geometric logic. He reminds us of Humphrey Bogart’s famous portrayal of Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny:
Ahh, but the strawberries that’s… that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with… geometric logic… that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I’d have produced that key if they hadn’t of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers…
Now if President Ahmadinejad could only find Queeg’s strawberries…
UPDATE
On a more serious note, Ahmadinejad’s eerie certainty about future events is most disturbing, and suggests that his past millenarian statements and puritanical zeal should perhaps be taken very seriously for the actions they may portend. More discussions of human destiny from this very dangerous individual here.
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:43 am
Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter had an engineering background…
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Some behavior can be perceived either as terrifying or as comical.
“I am an engineer and I am a master in calculation and tabulation. I draw up tables. For hours, I write out different hypotheses. I reject, I reason. I reason with planning and I make a conclusion.”
This sounds like preliminary jottings for a Gilbert and Sullivan aria. (Chorus. He reasons with planning and makes a conclusion, And throws all his foes into helpless confusion.)
Hopefully this dangerous man will be thwarted and history will record him as a clown.
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
He and Fat Al, inventor of the internet, would make a lovely couple.