Who could have predicted that the Iran War would be an exercise in tragic futility and a foreign policy embarrassment of epic proportions? Pretty much anyone with a modicum of foreign policy knowledge not employed by Fox News it seems. So it’s no surprise then that Trump now pivots from “we will settle for nothing less than unconditional surrender” to “it’s just common sense for Iran to have a nuclear program… and ballistic missiles… after all, they have to be able to defend themselves.” A switcharoo worthy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its famous form-shifting trickster Jove.
His consuls, who have secretly sworn their oath of office in his name and not the Constitution, marched forth like lemmings to sacrifice themselves at his feet. How long before they start calling for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize, again? Being nothing more than parasitic bugs methinks that Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a more apt portrayal of these vermin. In the end though, I’m betting on Melville’s prophetic vision…
“As for the men, though some of them lowly rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear of Fate.” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick. Chapter 124, Paragraph 13. The Needle.
We all know the fate of Ahab and his men…
“better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee.” -Chapter 23, Paragraph 4. The Lee Shore.
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