…for American foreign policy in the Middle East:
THE KILKENNY CATS
There were once two cats of Kilkenny.
Each thought there was one cat too many;
So they fought and they fit,
And they scratched and they bit,
Till, excepting their nails,
And the tips of their tails,
Instead of two cats, there weren’t any.
Shiites hate Sunnis.
Iran hates Iraq.
Almost everyone hates the Saudis (though they kiss up to the fake royals).
And so it goes. There are so very many factions in the Muslim world who hate each other that perhaps the best American foreign policy in the Middle East might be to encorage such factionalism and “brotherly hatred” in hopes that the eternally self-destructive Muslim world will play Kilkenny cats for us and simply eat itself up. (Of course, when one or another side looks like it’s gaining ascendency, playing quartermaster to the “loser(s)” to keep ’em bleeding each other equally would be a Very Good Thing.)
…So they fought and they fit,
And they scratched and they bit,
Till, excepting their nails,
And the tips of their tails,
Instead of two cats, there weren’t any.
It’s a thought (which is one thought more than seems to have been put into our current Mass Media Podpeople-driven foreign policy).
Think the ants’ll stay off this one at Basil’s? Looking for some lettuce and tomato at TMH’s Bacon Bits.
I was having similar thoughts just a while ago watching the news. I don’t make a habit of doing that as you well know but they had a segment on the miraculously multiplying brown nosing butterflies I wanted to watch. I was thinking why don’t we just get the hell out of there and let them kill each other…