Ahmadinejad Never Wears a Tie

Were it that easy; to simply write a wish list and consider it done. Bush had the chance to wash his hands. Saddam Hussein was toppled. “Mission Accomplished.” Yet, he did not walk away. Saddam Hussein Obama (if we can take his word) will walk away after - what? After the stars have aligned in a certain way? Just before U.S. presidential elections? After Iraqi election results have managed to establish some sort of pecking order in the new kleptocracy?

Eighty parties, each one sporting a fax machine; six thousand candidates? We have enough on our plates with only two and six. And even in the relative simplicity of our own civic exercise we have been getting it wrong.

I see no reason for hope in Iraq. The election process there could have been simplified by handing out blindfolds and darts. The name of the game is ‘Pin the Tail on the Donkey”. Children can do it. Anyone can win. The result is never merit based.

I attended a concert by the middle schoolers of a prestigious private academy at one of our local churches last week. It featured a boys’ choir, a girls’ choir and string ensemble. What struck me was that 80% of the of the string ensemble was comprised of Asians. They were also very good. The choirs were only fair to middlin’, made up of what you’d expect: white, upper middle class kids. They sang without enthusiasm. They seemed strictly ‘affirmative action’.

I took note that Iraq’s affirmative action candidates wore (what Indians would refer to as) their ‘monkey suits’ as targets. Has anyone ever noticed that Ahmadinejad never wears a tie?