Iwo Jima, mon amour
Recently, Dick ‘The Vice’ Cheney went on a bits-of-the-world tour. Amongst a select few countries where he wouldn’t be arrested, shot or blown-up on the spot, he visited Japan, where he was welcomed like bird flue. There he spent some time ‘worrying’ about China – not about that country’s human rights’ record or Tibet (though he could have done with some pointers about successfully invading places and then keeping some kind of order there) but about China sending a rocket into space. Since China has been sending off rockets even before the Vikings discovered McBush world, this seemed a waste of a good worry but never mind – it’s nice to see that Mr Cheney does worry about some things.
So, while pax Americana blooms like a million bloody zits all over the face of planet earth, in Russia, Mr Putin, newly inflated by sharp intakes of a few billionaires’ cash & freedom and Russian gas, warned the USA about that country’s unipolar adventurism and told the U.N. that poor Serbia’s feelings must be taken into account over the final status of Kosovo.
North Korea now has nukes, which will please their neighbours no end, of course, while in the Middle East, just to make things a bit more entertaining, Israel is thinking about burying their latest Lebanon mishap under the rubble of some Iranian nuclear reactors.
So, nostalgia rules again, as, like the daft remake of a dubious art movie, the Cold War comes to a theatre near you. Still, with even more idiots in positions of power than the last time round, cold may run into hot quite fast – so maybe Clint Eastwood will get to make his third World War movie soon enough.
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