Call it surrealism from the barrel of a gun; the US must start yet another war in the Middle East to punish an "evil dictator" -- once again, as bad as Hitler -- for gassing children. The evidence? It's "indisputable." Talk about hitting a new low with a bang.
Putin in the end saved POTUS. The Russian plan of having Damascus surrender its chemical weapons arsenal worked because of its inbuilt Chinese wisdom; nobody lost face -- from POTUS and the US Congress to the European Union, the UN and the farcical "Arab" League, essentially a Saudi Arabian colony.
Then, after so much sorrow, some forgiveness. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made a spectacular entrance at the UN surfing no less than a WAVE, as in World Against Violence and Extremism. Not in Farsi, which would be lost in translation; in English. He invited the whole planet to join the WAVE. How come no "coalition of the willing" leader ever thought about that?
POTUS, to his credit, rose to the occasion. Sure, it took a massive 60 years for an American president to finally admit Washington had a hand in overthrowing the democratically elected Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953. POTUS officially recognized the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's fatwa against nuclear weapons (imagine the George W Bush administration doing it). And he said on the record that Washington is not seeking regime change in Tehran -- thus speeding up former vice president Dick Cheney's next heart attack. POTUS even mentioned the key words "mutual respect."
By this time the Chinese were busy proclaiming the birth of the "de-Americanized" world.
Still it was exhilarating to watch the 34-year Wall of Mistrust between the US and Iran starting to tumble down on a Sunday at 3 am in Geneva.
It was only a mutually acknowledged "first step" -- a deal between the P5+1 and Iran to start negotiating a real deal. But the temptation is great to sideline cynicism and coldly weigh in the Obama administration's own calculations; if everything of consequence in Southwest Asia revolves around Iran, there can't possibly be an Obama-announced "pivoting to Asia" without, first, a pivot to Persia.
So after so many lows and one certified high, this is the big question for 2014; will the 0.0001 percent, the Western financial Masters of the Universe, allow a sovereign, independent Iran in the same league of Russia and China, thus further solidifying Asian integration in the New Great Game in Eurasia?
Because that's what really the endgame is all about. One wonders whether POTUS the peacemaker will have the balls to bet it all, especially when one considers the (White) House not always wins.
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