With each passing day, the administration’s foreign policy incompetence grows more obvious. Especially regarding Iran. Because if the U.S. were to show some spine, that nation might actually decide to cease its nuclear weaponry ambitions.
However, Iran not only expects to pursue becoming the major military force in its region, U.S. hands-off policy has emboldened the nation even further, as follows:
According to AP on-line via Drudge, “A senior Iranian naval commander says his country has sent several warships to the Atlantic Ocean, close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time.
Iranian officials said last month that the fleet consisted of a destroyer and a logistic helicopter carrier, which will be on a three-month mission.
Haddad says the fleet is approaching U.S. maritime borders for the first time. The Islamic Republic considers the move as a response to U.S. naval deployments near its own coastlines. The U.S. Navy's 5th fleet is based in nearby Bahrain.”
So, here we have this backward country whose only strength is its threat to harm its neighbors with nuclear weapons which is remindful of a movie made in 1959, The Mouse That Roared, starring Peter Sellers.
The plot, according to Wikipedia entails, “The tiny (three miles by five miles) European Duchy of Grand Fenwick, supposedly located in the Alps between Switzerland and France, proudly retains a pre-industrial economy, dependent almost entirely on making Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. However, an American winery makes a knockoff version, "Pinot Grand Enwick", putting the country on the verge of bankruptcy.
The prime minister decides that their only course of action is to declare war on the United States. Expecting a quick and total defeat (since their standing army is tiny and equipped with bows and arrows), the country confidently expects to rebuild itself through the generous largesse that the United States bestows on all its vanquished enemies (as it did for Germany through the Marshall Plan at the end of World War II).”
Now, except for the facts that Iran is considerably larger than Grand Fenwick, and its only product is oil not wine, the rest of the circumstances are pretty much the same.
However, the really incredible part of the whole scenario is that the movie was intended to be a farce. But while the administration's supposed to be realistic and serious, its sitting back watching while the same script plays out in real life.
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