Obama to Ahmadinejad: Cuchi Cuchi

In the “Way We Were” Barbara Streisand plays a Trotskyite campus agitator and in one scene taking place in the early to mid 1950s she's leafleting near a “Ban The Bomb” banner. The Left is no longer quite for unilateral nuclear disarmament. It would be a huge victory if we could win a worldwide accord outlawing chemical and biological weapons and requiring the nations that have them to drastically reduce their stockpiles. It would also be pretty good if we could get the number of nuclear nations down to the permanent members of the UN security council – and then get them all to cut their stockpiles on a steady course to an agreed minimum required for deterrence.

In practice, we can't get an agreement to ban landmines.

Now you can't find a good Leftist to say they trust Obama or any President and certainly not the US Armed Services with tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. If the President went mad, the military is so obsessive about the chain of command they might carry out an order to nuke Bolivia. Maybe someone in the chain of command would or could countermand the order …. but the “maybe” exactly describes the problem. However, though Putin and Obama cannot safely be trusted with such power, it is cultural colonialist imperialism to suggest that New Deli, Islamabad, and Tehran can't be trusted either.

In Iraq Saddam Hussein was so nervous about looking weak to his people, he pretended to have WMD he didn't have, and he pretended to hide them from UN weapons inspectors. The current President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insists the Holocaust is a Zionist play for sympathy and in fact never took place. That makes him less qualified to lead a major nation than Ted Nugent or Charo. Now maybe the anti-imperialist Left would condone letting Ted Nugent build a nuclear weapon in his backyard as long as only Charo had the launch codes, but I don't think so.

The left is clamoring about the possibility of the U.S. attacking Iran. With a third aircraft carrier heading to the Strait of Hormuz, our strategy seems crude but clear. We're gonna pick off their nuclear scientists one at a time until they let inspectors in and prove they are not creating the capability of producing nuclear weapons. And we get to blame it on the Israelis!! The Iranian press is going crazy knowing it is our operation while being unable to resist such a believable chance to pin the tail of blame on Zionism. Our message is clear: if you are working on the nuclear weapons project you're gonna get killed sooner rather than later unless you let our local agent know you're fudging the math and nobody is good enough to realize you're stalling. Aircraft carriers have lots of planes, and at least one coward has turned and told us where the main facilities are located.

The Iranians have had time to take a very fine look at the drone they captured. To the extent they have people knowledgeable enough to comprehend its capabilities, the Iranian government knows no general area bombing would be necessary to eliminate their program. Even worse, we'd take credit for the attack denying them the redeeming glory of blaming the act of war on the Zionists.

If you think it is a terrible immoral colonialist imperialist idea to do any such thing, close your eyes and think what would be permissible if it were Ted Nugent and Charo.