In the Asia Times, Spengler chronicles a list of Iranian woes, including marked demographic decline, a collapsing of the oil-based economy, high rates of opiate addiction and prostitution among the literate class and concludes that theocratic Iran is dying.
Go gently.
“Go gently”…or not! Just go!
The book I read tells me: “Blessed is the nation who’s God is the Lord.” I can only assume the opposite for a nation who’s God is the author of death and destruction. Kinda like karma… but not.
. . . And go quickly. Please.
…Their behavior lately makes me wonder if they not only know this themselves, but they’re more than willing to take the rest of us with them when they go.
Mike
I was thinking the same thing. Let’s hope that cooler heads prevail, or that the regime implodes without taking the rest of the world down with it.
Mike K/
Don’t delude yourself–you don’t have to worry or wonder–types like that are ALWAYS , always, MORE than willing to take the rest of us with them. Witness Hitler who didn’t believe the German people were worthy to live as a nation past his departure as being a “failed” culture.
It’s the Toad of Toad Hall mentality who, contemplating a very long time in jail for his latest motor escapade contemplated and/or lamented: “This is the end of the world! Or at least the end of Toad–which amounts to the very same thing for me!”
Go Gently, indeed.
I still think that an Israeli/U.S. strike against Iran (re Nukes) is our best/necessary course of action, though my crystal ball isn’t working no matter how hard I shake it.
History will let us know if we made the right decision.
truly bazarre.
Virgil –
When we were young, in our teens and twenties, we called our parent’s home Toad Hall. It is a complicated story about polar toads and toads that ran on zones at our mooring.
Needless to say, my brothers were all toads and my father to his dying day was the “big toad”.
I have a small toad that I keep by the kitchen sink, in the sun. It was my mother’s toad…
Is that wierd enough? No wonder we cut off the engagement…
GO NAVY!
Tyrannies rarely go quietly. The tyrants try to hold on to the last man and use external enemies they gin up to divert people from their troubles.
Hitler was a different case because of the way WW1 ended. WW1 was the prime cause of WW2. WW1 was a family squabble we should stayed out of. If we had, the war would have ended with a negotiated peace as the Triple entente powers had bled themselves white in butchery under the guise of military operations. Versailles was an unjust peace, and the world paid for it in spades.
As for Iran (Persia) read Ezekial chapters 38 and 39. You will see this material again in the newspapers in the not too distant future.