Whacking the Hornet's Nest
Trump thinks Iran won't retaliate for our sneak attack. Right
When I was a child in a working-class suburb sixty years ago, there was an older kid, let’s call him Ronnie, who was what we called “feeble-minded” back then. He was always walking around briskly, apparently friendless, seemingly antisocial, and would croak out “hi” as he passed. Other kids made fun of him, and called him “retard.”
Ronnie didn’t like hornets, and one day decided, or more likely was talked into, hitting a large hornet’s nest with a baseball bat. He was, of course, stung horribly, as were a few other people in the vicinity, hopefully including those who put him up to it.
I didn’t see him do it, I only, from a distance, saw squadrons of furious hornets buzzing around their battered nest.
Ronnie was older than me, and until this week I supposed that he died many years ago. But unless he learned from his attack strategy vis-a-vis the hornets, I wouldn’t be the least surprised to know he was the genius behind our attack on Iran.
Today, when Iran staged an admittedly ineffectual strike on our military base in Qatar, I heard the talking heads on CNN say that this was just for show and there likely wouldn’t be any further retaliation. I turned the TV off and talked to Chet, my Australian Shepherd, instead. He is vastly more sensible, and almost always gets it together and behaves when I put my hand on the control for his electric collar.
He is a quite rational dog, in other words, and has no chance of ever getting a job in the Trump administration.
Good analogy. I have a hornet's nest in my backyard I must address.
Jack,
This is too funny in so many ways! Of course I am on the opposing side, politically and even common sense wise.
Comparing Ronnie (maybe Reagan?) as a "feeble minded" person, where other kids called him "retard" and made fun of him and you talking to Chet, your Australian Shepard, who happens to be on a shock collar is humorous at the least.
When you typed of Chet being on a shock collar my first thought was the members of the Biden Administration and the "Press" (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC); all agreeing with the Biden Administration about the US southern border being closed while millions of "illegal immigrants" came across the southern border. If they did not say the border was closed to illegal immigration, then they got shocked. It is a learned behavior. Sort of just like "Inflation" was transitory. I guess it was but took about 4 years to start to subside...
It is sort of like the bombing of Iran's nuclear sites. That was the "shock collar" set on low; a warning so to speak. It is up to Iran's leaders and its' people to decide what happens next.
As they say in tennis; the ball is in their court.
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