You and two other kids you scarcely know are minding your own business on the playground when this big bully wanders over and begins picking on the three of you.
"Hey! Look everybody! These three slimeballs are theschool's most rotten apples, a veritable Axis of Evil.Why, if we don't kick the crap out of them now, they just might visit some dojo and become untouchable King Fu experts." After this bravado, with the approval of his closest buddies,the bullygrabs one of the other two kids and begins pounding him to pulp.
You and the remaining kid race off to the nearest dojo and begin Kung Fu lessons, hoping to become deadly weapons of mass destruction before the bully turns his attentionon you.
Time passes, and because the bully got into trouble for fighting on the playground, he couldn't quite get to you other two before you'd learned a little Kung Fu andhad became a danger to his supremacy. Oh, my! How he raised a ruckus, filling the air with his hypocritical, unctious complaints. "Now look! These remaining two villains are becoming a danger to us all. We must band together to wipe out these last vestiges of the Axis of Evil before they really become Kung Fu experts and dangerous."
On January 29, 2002, President Bush in his State of the Union Address made one of the dumbest faux pas in diplomatic history. When I was a kid, the first thing I learned from the cowboy movies was to never telegraph your punches, and in this speech he telegraphed his moves big time. In hisaddress, he introduced to the world the Axis of Evil--Iraq, Iran and NorthKorea. He accused these nations of developing weapons of mass destruction, and alleged that they were a threat to the rest of the world. Within a short time, ourbombs and tanks flattened Iraq, and if the subsequent insurgency to drive out the crusaders hadn't begun there, who knows what Bush's next move would have been.
It's obvious that the leaders of Iran and North Korea weren't idiots. Like the kids on the playground threatened by the bully (and what is Bush, but a bully), they looked to their defenses and started developing nuclear weapons at a frantic pace. President Bush and the Repulicanshave onlythemselves to blame for the current impasse with Iran and North Korea. It wasn't Carter or Clinton who created this mess, as the Republican spin doctor puppetsare asserting, but the Republican's own ideological rigidity and blindness. Talk about the arrogance of playground bullies, there you have it!
There are those who might contend that if Iran and North Korea had repented like the sinners theywere alleged to be, and wringing their hands, beggedSt. George Bush for forgiveness when they were given the chance (seriously, when was that?), then this furor could have been averted. Iran and North Korea are sovereign nations who have the right to defend themselves, just like us, and their record of aggression isn'teven as bad as ours. Our hypocritical posturing is like the pot calling the kettle black, to use an old homily. And if you were Iran or North Korea, would you trust the playground bully--the leader of the only nation in world history to use a real weapon of mass destruction? I wouldn't! This guy has an agenda, and the rest is rhetoric.
"Hey! Look everybody! These three slimeballs are theschool's most rotten apples, a veritable Axis of Evil.Why, if we don't kick the crap out of them now, they just might visit some dojo and become untouchable King Fu experts." After this bravado, with the approval of his closest buddies,the bullygrabs one of the other two kids and begins pounding him to pulp.
You and the remaining kid race off to the nearest dojo and begin Kung Fu lessons, hoping to become deadly weapons of mass destruction before the bully turns his attentionon you.
Time passes, and because the bully got into trouble for fighting on the playground, he couldn't quite get to you other two before you'd learned a little Kung Fu andhad became a danger to his supremacy. Oh, my! How he raised a ruckus, filling the air with his hypocritical, unctious complaints. "Now look! These remaining two villains are becoming a danger to us all. We must band together to wipe out these last vestiges of the Axis of Evil before they really become Kung Fu experts and dangerous."
On January 29, 2002, President Bush in his State of the Union Address made one of the dumbest faux pas in diplomatic history. When I was a kid, the first thing I learned from the cowboy movies was to never telegraph your punches, and in this speech he telegraphed his moves big time. In hisaddress, he introduced to the world the Axis of Evil--Iraq, Iran and NorthKorea. He accused these nations of developing weapons of mass destruction, and alleged that they were a threat to the rest of the world. Within a short time, ourbombs and tanks flattened Iraq, and if the subsequent insurgency to drive out the crusaders hadn't begun there, who knows what Bush's next move would have been.
It's obvious that the leaders of Iran and North Korea weren't idiots. Like the kids on the playground threatened by the bully (and what is Bush, but a bully), they looked to their defenses and started developing nuclear weapons at a frantic pace. President Bush and the Repulicanshave onlythemselves to blame for the current impasse with Iran and North Korea. It wasn't Carter or Clinton who created this mess, as the Republican spin doctor puppetsare asserting, but the Republican's own ideological rigidity and blindness. Talk about the arrogance of playground bullies, there you have it!
There are those who might contend that if Iran and North Korea had repented like the sinners theywere alleged to be, and wringing their hands, beggedSt. George Bush for forgiveness when they were given the chance (seriously, when was that?), then this furor could have been averted. Iran and North Korea are sovereign nations who have the right to defend themselves, just like us, and their record of aggression isn'teven as bad as ours. Our hypocritical posturing is like the pot calling the kettle black, to use an old homily. And if you were Iran or North Korea, would you trust the playground bully--the leader of the only nation in world history to use a real weapon of mass destruction? I wouldn't! This guy has an agenda, and the rest is rhetoric.
VIEW 6 of 6 COMMENTS
charlemagne:
You are hope, and I believe in you.
charlemagne:
I feel the same way about tags sometimes, because they can be annoying. I also sympathize with your dispeasure over your set in that you are brilliant and a perfectionist, and you expect others to do their best, too. The photographer was completely inconsiderate--though personally I liked the set because it was you, and there was no way the photographer could ruin the subject.