"The Last King of Persia"
by Radio Far Side
"Welp, Israelusa have gone and stepped in it again. I picture a couple of kids stomping around in cow pies and wondering why they always smell like shit. Suppose Evil Bastard A and Evil Bastard B started dropping bombs on the US on Christmas Day for no apparent reason, killing a bunch of schoolgirls and, oh I don’t know, Joel Osteen. Or suppose someone sneezed at the Wailing Wall during Hannukah giving some saintly rabbi (if such a thing exists) a head cold. Do you think the people would rise up and overthrow their governments?Or would they rally ‘round the flag and sing Kumbaya?
The vile attack on a country that hasn’t done anything overtly violent since its war with Iraq in the 1980s - and even that was predicated on a full-scale invasion by Iraq - is reprehensible. It cannot be blamed on Hamas, which is a Sunni Muslim organization. Iran is overwhelmingly Shi’a. That’s like attacking Moscow because you blame the Orthodox church for being anti-Vatican. Good grief.
One thing is immediately apparent in all this: the US CONgress is a redundant cowardly lapdog that long ago delegated its authorities and responsibilities, so that it’s little more than a champagne and cigar club with cushy gym. Come the fall, every incumbent up for election should be booted. But that will never happen.
Here’s a little metaphor: your house and family are surrounded by a blood-thirsty mob with pitchforks and torches, ready to attack you at any moment and raze your house to the ground, killing everyone inside. They demand that you throw out all your weapons, turn of the power and alarm system, unlock all your doors and windows, and destroy all your phones and computers. Oh, and you need to let a few of them move in to keep an eye on you. If you do that, they promise they will go away and leave you alone. You look into the faces of your terrified children, kiss your weeping wife for good luck, and start doing exactly as the mob demands. Right? I didn’t think so.
Here’s what’s really going on: Trump is trying to unseat China, the cornerstone of the NeoCon wish list since the 1990s. He wants to unwind the BRICS before his meeting with Xi Jinping at the end of March.
Trump has decapitated Venezuela, which was BRICS-aligned, mostly because he’s too chickenshit to go after Brazil, which is a founding member of BRICS. Now he is trying to decapitate Iran, which is a full member of the BRICS, while at the same time supporting a war in the Ukraine and hijacking oil tankers because Russia is a founding member of the BRICS. He’s also trying to lure India (founding member) away from Russia and China, all so he has a bit of leverage with Xi after severely hampering China’s energy supply. That’s it. That’s why Trump is killing thousands and destroying a sovereign nation.
BeeBee Nuttyahoo is a different story. He just loves killing. Doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter why. As long as Israel is at war, he figures he won’t be tried for crimes against humanity and profound corruption in his administration(s). Nuttyahoo is just a slimy bastard, not unlike Spain’s Franco in many respects. If he didn’t have Iran, Jordan and Lebanon to wipe off the map, I’d bet dimes to donuts he’d turn on his own people.
I live in a majority-Muslim country that recently became a full member of BRICS and sells coal to China. I have to wonder if the Marines will be at my door in the near future. If the Iran adventure fails, as it is likely to do, I imagine the odds are in favor of invasion here.
As I write, reports are coming out that Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed. Isn’t that wonderful? Trump and Nuttyahoo have slaughtered an 84-year-old cleric to appease their masters. Americans should be very proud. Warped as I am, I get an image of a Monty Python skit of Khamenei being carried out of the ruins on a stretcher, his feeble voice pleading, “I’m not dead yet.”
Something that occurred to me some time back, and with Trump going hog wild with his army toys making impeachment and removal a real possibility (if CONgress finds its bollocks). Suppose the plan all along was for Trump to leave office after the mid-terms. According to the rules, JD Vance would have a shot at 10 years in office, since less than half a term would not constitutionally count against him (see LBJ).
I know, I know - CONgress will never find its bollocks, especially with all the Karens in there, and Trump will never leave office. Just a thought for a soggy monsoon afternoon."
"Si mundus vult dicipi, ergo dicipitatur."
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