SPITTING IN SHOES, PISSING IN COKES

What I suppose was missed in yesterday's post about "Dr." Condoleeza Rice was my cri de coeur. Iran = Nuclear War. End of story. This prospect scares me. None of us are "above all this." This is not about race. This is about Man as a species. For CHRIST'S SAKE, JUST DO WHAT YOUR DRIVER'S ED TEACHER TOLD YOU AND SEE THE BIG PICTURE. Yes, my viewpoints are just fine if only if I didn't express them that way. I get it.

But "Dr." Rice is right about something. It is very much about "stability." I live in an area of the world that is supposedly being "destabilized" by Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa. It isn't. They are two heads-of-state with a slightly different way of seeing domestic policy than "Dr." Rice does. Nothing is regionally unstable right now, although no one should be in a super-big hurry to be spending much time in Colombia. They are going to have to figure things out for themselves. What they certainly don't need is to be the site of a proxy war featuring the USA v THE AXIS OF EVIL [-7 -125]. But I'm straying. It's probably a blessed thing for all of us down here that there is an Iraq war because otherwise a real big war would be invented here. No? Find a state "we" (meaning the USA) "like" anywhere from Chihuahua to Tierra Del Fuego.

The Russians are happy to let Bush and Blackwater play G.I. Joe in Iraq because it allows for high oil prices for Russia and cheap call options on American assets -- via the embedded optionality in debt -- for China. A weak dollar is doing wonders for the EU, possibly the third force in opposition. If this moves over into Iran, that's when those three stop playing because then in means something. Somethingly triply un-good for Russia, China and the EU. And they, unlike Nancy Pelosi, will fight back.

Just go over to http://thedisbrimstone-dailypitchfork.blogspot.com/ and read the most recent posts by Fredrick Schwartz and Lord Vellocque Basilisk Cantharidin (OK, it's baroque, but no joke). Come back and we'll discuss.

These folks generally have the 411, dressed up in a Christmas package, meant to distract and confuse and make the truth or their own screams sound silly, but there's nothing silly going on. They know. And they care what happens. You've already read Fredrick Schwartz's words. They are plain. When? The famous "Champagne Socialist" British placard of yesteryear -- "WHY?" -- (a pretty good question, really) -- is now quaint and irrelevant. When? That's the question. "I don't know, probably never" is the answer.

As for Lord Vellocque Basilisk Cantharidin's proposition, well it sounds like The Manchurian Candidate, but who knows what's real and what isn't? It's as plausible an explanation as any. Personally, I tend to believe that as hard as it is to get five people to agree on what to have for dinner, it's very close to impossible to make a bargain like that and have everyone play their part. And not everyone is playing their part even if the Lord's analysis and information is perfect. If Pelosi's deal is so pat, then the logical assumption is that the Bush Administration would live up to their end, float to the finish, and help Giuliani get elected President, all super-suave. They have been anything but super-suave. It seems that having gotten the Democrats to agree to this, they are now taking every opportunity to needle and cajole not only the Democrats but the rest of the world. They are daring the Democrats to play the Abramoff card and the rest of the world to play the nuclear card. So, what's really the game? Guessing, I'd say that they don't give a shit about Giuliani, figuring that if Clinton wins, she wins. The war in Iraq will be escaleted and that's fine. But, having extracted a deal, if they stick in the Democrats' faces, they have nothing to lose and quite possibly can pry things open enough in the process to let Giuliani through. The fallback of Clinton isn't so bad for them, so why not take a shot at winning both halves of the Omaha/8 hand with the Nut-Flush and the 8-7 low?

The alternative is that the Lord is tapping into everyone's Hollywood fantasies and spinning a clever, allegorical yarn, and that the Democrats are just weak and craven, that there is no card for them to play and being inside the Washington bubble, the narrative as written is OK by them. "Dr." Rice is a scholar. Colin Powell is a stand-up guy. Barack Obama is inspiring. Dennis Kucinich is loony. Cynthia McKinney is un-American and anti-Israel. Barbara Lee is a traitor. Most importantly, Iran is evil. This week. There was a week in the fall of 1986 and the fall of Eugene Hasenfus when we found out these same folks in government thought Iran wasn't so evil, while thinking Saddam was good. And Osama bin Laden was GREAT. While they were all fighting each other.

The latter scenario does swing back around to the idea that maybe the Lord is not telling complete fiction. If the world, including 80% of the American public, see things one way and party regulars and the MSM see things the other way, there is some master plan and a weak Democratic Party is somehow part of that master plan. It does seem fanastical, though. The Democratic Leaders aren't stupid and aren't weak or else how could they have risen through their own ranks? Could the MSM be so stupid themselves? It is doubtful. They all have college or post-graduate educations. They're not innocent. They see what's what. Yet, there it got to a point during Bush's first term when it seemed like a diktat had been issued to everyone with any voice to pronounce the word NUKE-U-LAR. And that's why I'm confused and scared.

Next post is #300. It, unlike the Republican Party, will be super-suave. (That's Spanish by the way and is pronounced SOUP-AIR SWAV-AY). Just a youtube of a live performance of Stiff Little Fingers' cover of Bob Marley's "Johnny Was." As a cri-de-coeur, they don't come much better. There was a time when it was a coin-toss as to which of the Northern Ireland bands were going to break through. You know the answer. Bono got rich and born-again and became a Bush/Blair (!) enabler. Jake Burns just got fat. That's unfortunate but somehow SLF still shows up and plays. That's the best anybody can do, after all.

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