I feel like I've just had a lube job. Watching CNN's "Larry King Live" show Wednesday night was like hearing the same bad joke again that wasn't funny the first time it was told us.
The topic was Iran and the British marines being held captive because there seems there is no clear agreement between Britain and Iran where Iranian and Iraqi waters begin or end. How exciting and what a great reason to spark another war! Empire nations, Britain and the US, parked just outside Iranian waters acting provocatively appear to be begging for an excuse to begin blowing up Iranian shit.
Comes the latest news this morning that Iran is thinking of putting the British marines on trial. More provocation. Could it be any better if Bush and Ahmadenijad were talking by phone daily?
And so, as I watched Larry King, I was being treated to a strategy analysis of CNN's Military Analyst, Gen. Don Shepperd, U.S. Air Force (retired) from Tucson, likely just off his resident golf course after 18 holes and a couple hits in the club house, standing before a map of the Persian Gulf explaining strategies in a flashback of the 2003 news channel's "rah-rahing" us into war with Iraq.
A week ago, I'd have bet the chips on Alberto "Fredo" Gonzales (Bush's nickname for the attorney general--who was Michael Corleone’s dim witted and weak brother in Francis Coppola’s “Godfather” movie series) to resign before our next war began. Now I'm thinking the odds are about even between Fredo's resignation and our starting a third simultaneous (losing) military action. Thanks to the British hostage incident and the US conducting military operations with two AC carriers and 100 warplanes off Iran's coast.
So here we are with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadenijad and the U.S.'s George Bush, two popularly "elected" leaders of questionable lucidity, both whose popularity is flagging among their citizenry by leaps and bounds. (I don't know the numbers, but I'd guess Ahmadenijad enjoys more support in Iran than Bush in the U.S.) Both are in desperate need of some public distraction; of something that will bring the sheep bleatingly back to their side, "bah-bahing" against someone they hate even more than their own presidents. And departing prime minister Tony Blair's little corps of marines may be just the catalyst they need.
If lucky, maybe Russia, China, or both can be pulled into the impending conflict! *Poof!* No more daily stories out of the White House on the latest Bush administration scandal. And won't it be great to have Americans once more united all behind their president Bush as we glimpse TV news images of both houses of our representatives recessing outside to the steps of congress beneath the flag to recite in perfect unity the "Pledge of Allegiance."
Until then, don't be surprised in the days ahead to see more resident military "anal-ysts" being called back to "active duty" by the likes of CNN, Fox, etc. to stand before maps, to teach us geography and military strategies.
I think we're all being greased. (Or should I say "oiled"?)
4 comments:
Greased and Fleeced !!!
Thank you for distilling (or should I say refining) Larry King. I guess his show is called Larry King Live to prove to us he's not dead yet, in fact he may outlast us all. Him & Cheney.
Oh, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in perfect unity is not that difficult. Ask them all to SING the national anthem as the world watches us pounce on Iran. That will separate the rah-rahs from the bah-bahs.
(sign) another war front: I guess Bush really doesn't read History. Too many fronts destroy the core. Ask Hitler or Napoleon. How many Waterloos can America absorb? ~~ D.K.
Dada:
Thanks for the update on the lack of poppies. Thanks, too, for the insights on Los Alamos -- probably true about too many quirky ideas in that town. I finished Stallion Gate. A good read, if a little far-fetched. Cruz Smith mentions Tularosa on page 344 but only as a geographic point on the east boundary of the first test site. We're off to Las Vegas tomorrow and will go through the town of Searchlight, Nevada, hometown of Majority Leader Harry Reid. He published a book on his hometown (population about a thousand) a couple of years ago. I had to finish the book as he read from it during one of the filibusters. An interesting read. Have a good one.
Hey EProf, I'm afraid you'll find Seachlight NV not exactly the same as when Harry R was growing up there. It was a crossroads of noisy big rigs last time I went that way. No sign of the bordello that his mom used to do the laundry for. I just hope the never-ending expanding Vegas outflow hasn't actually enclosed it yet. Let us know!
Dada, next time you watch the movie "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", listen closely to the song Kris Kristofferson talk/sings at the beginning as he breaks out of jail & you'll hear "Tularosa" ! But don't stop there. Gotta at least watch to where old Slim Pickens dies & Bob Dylan is singing "knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door". There's a very touching moment as his wife watches him. ~~ D.K.
dk, we visited Searchlight about four years ago and spent three or four hours there in the museum and driving the streets past the school and community health center. Yes, there were a number of big rigs going through too. We made the mistake of thinking that we could access the Colorado River by going east at the main intersection but no such luck as we hit a deadend on the bluff. We did see Reid's home to the left hand side of the highway as we went north to Las Vegas. It was a relatively new home but you could see where his ocotillos were being invaded by his hated jack rabbits. Yes, I'll give you a report at the end of the week on any new stuff. Enjoyed the references to Tularosa from filmdom. Speaking of Billy the Kid, I heard an interesting interview on NPR the other day about him and the Lincoln County Wars in the book The Endless Ride by Michael Wallis. I've got it on order and hope to have by the time I get back from LV.
Have a great week, y'all.
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