I couldn’t care less about this miniseries. Assigning blame is a pointless exercise, because twenty years of American presidents deserve the blame. Reagan, Bush the elder, Clinton, and Bush the younger all share in America’s missing the danger that is now known as Islamism.

In fact, I watched The Fantastic Four on HBO tonight instead of wasting time and energy on a miniseries that seeks to lay the blame for the current state of the world.

And I find it hilarious that the same conservatives who were going batshit over the Reagan biography’s many inaccuracies are now defending the ABC miniseries’ many inaccuracies in almost exactly the same manner as the liberals defended whoever was going to run the Reagan pic. The roles are completely reversed: Republicans wanted to squelch the Reagan biopic, Democrats wanted it aired and yelled “FIRST AMENDMENT!” as loudly as they could. Sound familiar? It should.

Kindly stop sending me emails with links to the unedited clips of the miniseries. Since when has any televised “docudrama” been worth the paper it’s printed on? Since when do conservatives take the much-maligned MSM at its word, and suddenly impute Word-of-God status to a movie made for television?

You want to assign blame? Then remember that Ronald Reagan ordered our Marines to cut and run after Hezbullah murdered hundreds of them in their sleep in Lebanon. Remember that Clinton ordered our troops to cut and run after Mogadishu, and that he did nothing in particular after the bombings of the embassies in Kenya, and the bombing of the Cole.

You want to lay the blame? Blame all four presidents who allowed U.S. citizens to be murdered on their watch, and did nothing. Right up to 2003, when a convoy that was in Gaza to help palestinians was bombed—by palestinian terrorists. The PA arrested the usual suspects, all of whom, I believe, were let go.

Yasser Arafat knew that he could bomb with impunity, because the United States has never avenged a single American death in Israel. And there have been many.

So count me in the numbers of Americans who won’t be watching the “docudrama.” I’m sorry, but I learned a long time ago that the “docu” part is about the equivalent of a high school book report’s version of Moby Dick. There’s a whale in it, and Captain Ahab, but the rest is just another fish story.

The following explosive headline is published by ubiquitous IRNA: Health minister to unveil breakthrough in AIDS cure. What can one say? Even if one is not personally concerned about AIDS at the moment, the whole world is suffering and holding its breath in tense expectation of the delivery. No matter where it comes from. Unfortunately, the information IRNA provided is scant.

According to Health Ministry officials, Iranian scientists have invented a formula to control symptoms of AIDS.

“The research studies to find out a formula to cure AIDS was initiated during the tenure of two former health ministers and have led to useful results,” a health official said. Former minister of health and medical education Mohammad Farhadi who served as executive director of the project for ‘a formula for reinvigorating the immunity system of the body’ told IRNA that the project led to the discovery of a formula to control symptoms of AIDS and some other virus-oriented infections.

That’s it more or less. UPI joined the chorus, but with no additional details.

There is one curious detail about the IRNA article: the page it appears on includes an ad for an AIDS cure (see here).

The ad offers you a booklet about the new miraculous cure for both HIV and AIDS (sic!) by Ms Hulda Regehr Clark, Ph.D., N.D. An additional bonus in form of “easy to follow instructions for an electric circuit that lets you zap the virus!” is offered as well. The circuit could be, probably, constructed at home following the instructions.

To learn more about Ms Regehr Clark, see The Bizarre Claims of Hulda Clark on Quackwatch, as one example of the attitude scientific community displays toward the lady.

There is definitely a secret spring of refreshing humor in IRNA, methinks…

In any case, Iran has one surefire medicine against both HIV and AIDS: hanging.

I am sure that only the Islamophobes in WHO prevent this method from being proposed for a Nobel prize.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews