Iran's presidential pariah

Evansville (Ind.) Courier & amp; Press: Iran's new president seems determined to make himself and his country international pariahs. He's off to a great start.
With the world growing apprehensive over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and getting to the point where it might actually do something about them, the wise course of action would have been for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be discreet, circumspect. Instead, in October he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Then he called the Holocaust a "myth."
Perhaps Ahmadinejad has virtues discernible to the people who elected him but invisible to the rest of us. But it's increasingly hard to escape the judgment that he is an ill-educated, ill-mannered nutcase who may one day have nuclear weapons.