THE NEW COLD WAR

So what happens when an American aircraft is shot down and falls nearly whole into the hands of the enemy? It is taken apart by the 'enemy' and dissected to find out what makes it tick. This was the case when Gary Powers crashed in the USSR. They took the plane apart and held him hostage until a deal got worked out and he was traded for KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher (aka Rudolf Abel). He was not made a hero, nor was he vilified except by some hard liners who said he should have killed himself instead of being captured. So why do I bring this up now?

He launched from Pakistan. We have just had a 'drone' aircraft launched from there that has been intercepted by the Iranians. They have refused to return it. We don't have anything to bargain with so it is similar to that earlier incident except that no humans are involved in the bargaining process.

Does this bode well? Are we to be embroiled in another 'cold war' type standoff? I say yes. I say we are trying to come up with a nuclear/evil empire to replace the USSR. We tried to do so with North Korea but they are to pathetic to be a good enemy. They don't even have running water for most of their citizens.

Iran is a comfortable enemy. They are familiar to most of the US people. They were responsible for getting rid of the sympathetic (to their cause) Jimmy Carter (if you doubt this, read some of Jimmy's books, he dislikes the way things are going in the middle east in regards to Israel and has always done so) and got the Uber-Christian leaning Ronald Reagan to be president.

I do not, to this day, understand why the Iranians thought RR would be better for their cause, but that is the nature of politics. Now they want to be still in the limelight in our press and our sensibilities so they are trying to become a nuclear power and doing things that will tick off our religious rightists and conservatives. They are getting close to that goal.

And we are letting them become more important than they should be. Why? Because they are doing the salesman thing we have all seen. They are using fear.

They are coming into our home to give us an estimate to fix a problem that we have. They are telling us that this is a really serious problem and to fix it we have to destroy the existing house and build a new one. They are, in effect, running the show much the same way they ran the 1980 election of this country.They don't have enough leverage to throw this current election but they are trying to come up with a way to do so. They just released some US citizens because they weren't numerous or important enough to catch the attention of the populace of the US.

I don't think they are finished. I think there will be another attempt as soon as they know who the Republican nominee is. This could change their goal if it is someone they REALLY don't want to deal with.

In my next diatribe I will break down who I think they would like to have win the presidency. Stay tuned for more on this.. meanwhile, have a happy holiday.. (you can have a nice Christmas Mr. Rick Perry since that is so important to your happiness to state your faith.)