Making Peace, but Keeping the Swagger

ON THE DAY AFTER Thanksgiving, we are thankful that the United States is enegaed in fewere wars than at any time in its recent past. To be sure, the American military is scattered all over the world, in grand imperial fashion, sucking the money it takes to maintain an empire on a laregely tapped out American citizenry. But no American bombs are falling anywhere, there have been no drone strickes agains tPakistani civilians for, oh, several weeks now - Things could be much, much worse. The preliminary peace agreement with Iran, in which the Iranians agree to slow down on their processing of heavy metal to gain time for further, more extensive disarmement agreements, is being criticized by tough talking American conservatives and tough talking Israeli leader Netanyahu. they can tok tough all they want; let the word go out; the United States of America has signed a peace treat with one of its many enemies, and that, unto itself, is an achievement worthy of celebration. A military power capable of destroying the ancient Persian Empire, haveing proven time and again its willingness to spread destruction, instead seeking and making peace. The world turned upside down. And for those conservative war mongering types among you who fear that America has gone soft under Obama, please take note of that intrepid pair of flat black, angular B52 bombers which cruised arrogantly and defiantly, albiet ostensibly unarmed, through newly declared Chinese air space just the other day. The old fire is still there!