Bogged Down in Berlin.
The Tehran Twelvers grabbed three American children, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal, last summer along the Kurdish border with Iran and now hold them hostage as spies in exactly the same dopey and useful fashion North Korea held two American jounalists last winter until the Bill Clinton mission to escort them out. Tehran's aim is to make mischief in order to create publicity in the Ummah. It is working. The trouble of the moment is that Jerusalem intercepted Tehran's arms-running to Syria and via Damascus to Hezbollah in Lebanon. PM Netanyahu was with POTUS today to speak directly to the Tehran provocation. The UN remains bogged down in the double-talk on the nuke fuel. It is Tehran's genius to stall and misdirect and deceive and prevaricate. POTUS will soon be ensnarled in a hostage drama if it suits Tehran's calendar of delay. StateSec HRC, in Berlin for the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, spoke to the bogged down jeopardy: "We believe strongly that there is no evidence to support any charge whatsoever. And we would renew our request on behalf of these three young people and their families that the Iranian government exercise compassion and release them, so they can return home."
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It must also be said that these three were not innocents. They were card-carrying anti-American liberals who missed no opportunity to stick their sharpened pencils in Uncle Sam's eye. They were self-promoters who thrived on deliberately going to the world's most volatile regions from which to post a by-line in some left-wing rag denouncing the U.S. and Israel. They were delusional in that they felt their open disdain for their own country would afford them accolades and guarantee their safety. This is very much akin to the mindset that animates the present occupant of the White House.
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Hmm... let's see-if you change some of the words a little bit we have this:
Anti American who misses no opportunity to stick his sharpened pencils in Uncle Sam's eyes. A self promoter who thrives on deliberately posting a by-line in some right wing rags denouncing the US and Israel. He is delusional in that he feels his open disdain for his own country will afford him accolades. This is very much akin to the mindset that animates the present occupant of the WhoKnowsWhere House.
Does this describe anyone familiar?
Ahhh... to be young again. Vibrant and full of verve. Taking on the world with a sense of being indestructible and being free to roam about at will. Loving life with positivism and feeling that one's only encumbrances are the ones that are placed on ourselves.
Kids'll be kids and they cross the lines sometimes and adults dutifully smack them back in place.
One might look in that mirror- don't stare too long, though, you could accidentally see yourself and all that you've actually become and how others just may perceive you, justly.