Obama “DE-bombs” Iran … thus earning his second Nobel … YEAH!! Okay, lem’me start with the glaringly obvious. The hyphenated neologism, encased within quotes, is meant to ring a bell with regard to Arizona Senator John McCain’s glomming onto the Beach Boys’ tune BARBARA ANN. Maybe, in that selfsame regard, the following snatch helps: “.. bomb, bomb, bomb … bomb, bomb, bomb Iran …” I’m promising the reader something rather extraordinary. I hereby promise to reveal a plausible, at least, scenario that lays out how President Barack Hussein Junior came to be on track for indisputably earning the second Nobel Peace prize. At the moment, however, I should like to delineate a key difference between the Russian and American attitudes towards safety. When Americans feel safe, they believe they are somehow shielded from danger. On the other hand, Russians feel safe, when they believe that danger is absent. True enough, our college philosophy professors would maintain there’s only the academic “hair of difference” between those two attitudes. This is where our American President enters the picture. He gambled his presidential legacy on that aforementioned hair. When Obama began campaigning for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, his major opponent at the time former First Lady Hillary Clinton accused him of being “naïve”. The same charge was leveled against Barack by Arizona Senator McCain. All along, Barack was laying the ground work for earning that second Nobel Peace Prize by advocating dialogue with the Iranians. Here are the crucial details, which shall soon become all too obvious to the average pundit. So long as Iran was pursuing nuclear armament, the Russians would’ve been very hard pressed to believe they were, in their own mind, absolutely safe. What if (?) some whacked-out Islamic terrorists had somehow gotten their hands on an atomic bomb! After all, such terrorists, whom I regard as “bedbugs”, have struck not only in the United States, but also in the Russian Federation. Granted, it may well be that the likelihood of that ever coming to happen would be extremely remote. And yet, there is the undeniably present possibility that such could happen, albeit grossly inadvertently so, through Iran’s aforementioned pursuit. At bottom, so long as Iran was engaged that way, danger was far from absent. Here’s a thought that may provide the reader with some food for thought. There’s an old British proverb: “sleep with dogs, rise with fleas” … The following may be considered an instance of mixing metaphors. Like the dog in the proverb, the Iranian government is on record for having truck with terrorists, a/k/a BEDBUGS. Therefore, the Russians necessarily infer that the Iranian government is infested with BEDBUGS. In the mind of the Russians, that was more than enough cause for concern, if not outright alarm. From that, it follows that it is indeed necessary to take up arms against a prospective sea of troubles. I can believe it took years for Obama’s diplomacy to get that point across to the good people, who are in charge of the Russian Federation. It’s not unheard of, ya’know, for people in charge to sometimes take their sweet time in acknowledging the obvious. At this point, lem’me cut to the chase. People in charge of their nation’s interests will show themselves to be ever so accommodating and coöperative, solicitous even, when there’s a bayonet in their back. Let’s suppose that the bayonet in the back of the Iranians happens to be Russian. For my part, I can believe that is a situation, with which the President can live easily enough. Incidentally, I can easily believe those aforementioned bayonet wielders prefer to deal with stable regimes, when it comes to such serious matters as nuclear proliferation. And from there it at least plausibly follows that Obama’s losing his re-election to “Mittens” would’ve scuttled whatever possibility there was for motivating the Iranians to halt their pursuit of nuclear armament. On a somewhat related, albeit remotely so, topic, I can just as easily surmise that, with regard to the continued existence of Israel, those aforementioned bayonet wielders could hardly care less. Here it may be a tad too fanciful to speculate about how commentators with poetic verve would animadvert to that turn of events. Who (?) would have the qualifications to say! The current President of the United States of America might well be compared to the monarch, who chose Esther as his queen. Indeed, for the classically educated among us, talk about irony! And here, in jaundiced disposition, I should like to pause a bit to tie up the foregoing in a nice bow like so .. Junior had an ace up his sleeve. Call me partisan, if one must. Nonetheless, I have my reasons for expressing this opinion. In a way, President Barack Hussein Obama was treading in the footsteps of another president, who had dealt successfully with the Russians. And he did so in equally spectacular fashion, if I’m so permitted to add. Really, I mean President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He got the United States unscathed through the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963. Maybe, just maybe, had JFK been allowed to live, he would’ve been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. O well, instead of that, his likeness is stampt on the half dollar coins Treasury includes in collectors’ proof sets. On a personal note, I’m in the habit of including two Kennedy halves in my daily pocket change. And one more thing, I would the reader to click on the following hyperlink: youtu.be/U9Z52t0tK4U to enjoy a clip that lasts about two minutes. Incidentally, more than 3,400 visitors so far have enjoyed running it. And after that, one might consider “SHARE”. …. p.s. Did (?) anyone notice my dropping the “Junior”. And one more item, there’s a big difference, ya’know, between earning and getting. ….
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:26:47 +0000