Is anyone else scared?

Is anyone else scared? W. talking about the “Iranian regime”. Discussion of shooting down the missile test by North Korea. Granted the article that mentioned shooting down the missile said it was a remote possibility, you know ‘cause it might spark a war, but isn’t the fact the idea was ENTERTAINED not scary? We saw what they did to a “regime” they thought had the precursors to nuclear weapons. What will they do to a nation that actually has them.

Luckily the Bush administration is not bothered by consistency or the need to follow logically what your own rhetoric dictates. They never suffer from cognitive dissonance. So we’re going to go all diplomatic on their asses. It makes sense if you use the right analogy. If we think they may have a gun, we shoot them to protect ourselves. If they are pointing a gun at us, we talk to them. NOW doesn’t that make sense. If you know for a fact they have a gun, cause it’s pointed right at you, you could get yourself killed trying to shoot them first. On the other hand, if you think they have a gun, (because fifteen years ago you saw them play with one, though for the last fifteen years they haven’t been allowed near guns or bullets and anytime they get near guns or bullets they get beaten up. But still you believe in your heart of hearts they have a gun in their possession. No one else thinks this. You don’t care, though. You would swear he’s hiding the gun in his backpack. In fact, you have several people swear they’ve seen it.) you kill them. Of course, it turns out they didn’t have a gun, but how could anyone know. What was I talking about? Oh yeah. Iran and North Korea.

Diplomacy is how we’re handling Iran and North Korea. Saddam was in a nutshell declaring himself the king of infinite space and we invaded him. Two nations hostile to the U.S. developing WMDs, one with a missile that has a range that can reach California, and we tell them “stop or we’ll say stop again.” Where is the rhetoric about the mushroom cloud that Iraq couldn’t, but Iran and N.K. most certainly could, bring us.

If only there were people in Congress to point out that this is far more important than flag burning and gay marriage. If only.

j.r.