Shock and Awe

When it comes to the maniacal motivations of mad mullahs, with their combination of pathological self-righteousness and obsessive tunnel vision, it is only to be expected that they would be comprehensible only to members of that similarly blessed estate known as journalism. This no doubt explains the psychic abilities of the Associated Press as displayed in Britain's leading liberal newspaper, which proclaims that the Iranian government has followed up on its provocative adherence to the nuclear treaty, and its aggressive restraint in response to the drone-strike murder of one of its senior officials, in order to exacerbate tensions with the United States. A perpetual victim of Iranian military might, the USA has now been martyred anew by the spectacle of Revolutionary Guards staging military exercises on a replica aircraft carrier in Iran's own waters. Although the exercise has neither disrupted US naval operations in the area nor interrupted the Homeland's God-given fossil fuel supply, there can be little doubt that harbouring such irresponsible intentions in a year when the Trumpster and his hydrophobic head-tribble are trying to steal another election merits the most severe of peacekeeping efforts.