The misplaced trust placed in the United Nations by suburban America

I have already imagined the scenario for the next Gulf War, and how it will play out on the television screens of the land. Bomb Baghdad for two days, move troops around the country and occupy iraq for four days, declare victory, and then spend the next few years mopping up just like in Afghanistan, where the Americans had a wonderful victory, complete with dancing Northern Alliance troops dancing with joy in the streets, and now, well now just like the Russians before them, they are just mopping up after their conquest of Afghanistan, and that's all that's happening there.

This seems to me to be the perfect way to run the Iraq war as well, just level Baghdad, and burn the place to the ground, and then bring in some of those Iraqis from overseas and let them dance in the streets of Basra or some place like that, since Baghdad would be to ruined to show on film, and then the American people can heave a great sigh of relief now that the war is finally over with, and the American military can settle into that job of mopping up in Iraq. They can then get ready for the next step in that plan of the New American century, the conquest of Iran, surrounded now by American troops on every side, just as described in the plan from 2000 for the New American Century, and the conquest of the world, and thus as planned, Iran is now ready to be invaded from all four sides, well that is if the American's don't have to drain down some of their extra troops to send them to do some more of that mopping in Afghanistan, and provided that Iraq doesn't require to much mopping.

Hopefully, the entire Middle East won't require to much mopping either, thus freeing up that American Military Machine for more important jobs like conquering and invading Iran, thus proving that the Republicans do know how to stick to a plan like the one detailed in that thing they wrote before the economy tanked on them (making it harder to pay for it all) that plan for the New American Century. Most voters are probably familiar with that plan to rule the world, having considered the matter carefully in the 2000 election campaign and decided to climb on board for that plan for World Domination, concluding that allowing the current Republican administration to rule the world was both something desirable for the whole planet, as well as being something that they could easily afford. That is provided that they cut some more programs and put all the social security into something really safe, like the stock market, thus ensuring its future value and safety, and freeing themselves from the cost so as to be able to afford to pay for World Domination, which from the sounds of it, is going to cost a hell of a lot more than Social Security and Medicare put together, thus explaining why the Republicans are so eager to get rid of both of them, and every other program as well.

As for Americans in need, they will be turned over to the caring conservative compassions of the religious right should they ever find themselves in need of a helping hand, not to mention just one more opportunity to accept Jesus as the Lord and Master in control of their entire life, an opportunity they will thankfully be given again and again each time they go to pick up their food basket for the next month. So you can see then that not only will Americans rule the world, they will also be going to heaven in greater numbers than ever before, and once people get saved from burning in hell for the crime of being born, and the even worse crimes of having orgasms the wrong way, well with their new found love of Jesus they will also be more than fit to be the new rulers of the world, since they will have all the good morals necessary to conquer the whole world in exactly the way that Jesus would want it done.

For the most part what Jesus wants is the invasion and conquest of oil producing countries, not because they have oil, but rather because they have Muslims who need to hear the gospel and are just as deserving as any other people on earth of being given plenty of time and lots of opportunity to confess the name of Jesus before they wind up getting fried in hell for all eternity. On the downside, when the rapture comes suddenly the world will be left without anyone in charge, but its the only way that they will learn, and when they really begin to miss the kind of orderly, strictly run society that their American overlords brought to them as a heavenly gift, well that will make them more likely to stop being so stubborn and become Christians themselves, after they get left behind, thus being taught a really good lesson they will never forget.

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if the religious right has really thought over that whole deal of having America invade and conquer the Middle East. You see that could set back the rapture by at least a century, given that the Republican party has plans to rule the world for at least a hundred years. Now its obvious that, all religion aside, no Republican is really expecting Jesus anytime soon, or maybe they were expecting Jesus around the year 2100 and that is why they were only planning to rule the world themselves for just one hundred years. Now according to religious right movies and sermons and so on, it was supposed to be their cold war foes, Russia and China, who were going to invade the Middle East, along with nasty Muslims countries like Iran, hell even Iraq was supposed to be in on the deal. I never heard any prophecy about America invading the Middle East, because according to the religious right prophecies only Gog and Magog was supposed to do that. Unfortunately, as I said, the rapture is off now, for sure, since Russia is much to bankrupted and out of date to invade the Middle East, and China has no real naval power to speak of, and is on the wrong side of the planet, and is in no way a military threat to the Middle East at this point in history, especially now that the Americans are sticking their nose in there, not having to worry anymore about anyone being able to challenge their unquestioned global power after all.

Therefore, tragically, I am afraid that the rapture is off, and will probably stay off for at least a hundred years, and so everyone can stop buying those left behind tapes and leaving them around the office, you know, just in case, because it should be obvious that all those prophecies have failed ... they just don't describe the world we see today, and thus it must be the case that they describe the world after the year 2100, and thus are nothing that anyone need concern themselves with now. Well, unless it turns out to be the case that the United States is in fact Gog and Britain is their side kick, Magog. If all that happened was that the prophets of the religious right just got all their countries mixed up, well then that would explain things now wouldn't it, and in that case, well then the prophecy of Gog and Magog invading the Middle East, only to run headllong into the great Wraths of God, well then it was in fact an accurate description of our time after all, and it was just that in the heat of the cold war years the prophets of the religious right just got their countries mixed up and put the commie Russians and the Red Chinese into that Gog and Magog prophecy by mistake. Well, if that is what happened, what with Gog and Magog poised to invade the Middle East any day now, in that case I would start packing, making sure that I was always carrying everything in my pockets that I would want to take with me during the rapture, because it is obvious that the end of the world has arrived.

Now i think that if a person did a survey and asked those ministers and prophets of the religious right if, maybe, just possibly, it, by some small chance, might have been the case that they were wrong and made a mistake about something, and that in fact China and Russia were not Gog and Magog, well, I think that they will reply that of course they were never wrong about anything, always having been exactly right about that one and every single last one of the others as well, yesterday, today, and until the day they drop dead, just perfectly correct. No, in fact, the American invasion of the Middle East is actually the fufillment of the prophet Jeremiah.

Alright so we have all been straightened out about that one.

Now I don't know how many people in the Pentagon have been born again, but I strongly suspect that quite a few must have been saved a long time ago, because as you know the Pentagon is planning to rain down more cruise missiles and bombs onto Baghdad during the first two days of the war than were used during the entire first Gulf War, according to some estimates up to one Hiroshima per hour for a grand total of 48 Hiroshimas of fire power. Now nukes have gotten a lot bigger since Hiroshima, that being a small first try, but even so, 48 Hiroshima's dropped on Baghdad in only two days is still a lot of firepower, and the only thing that makes it okay is that, thank God, they aren't actually going to drop 48 small Hiroshima sized nuclear bombs on Baghdad, which would be terribly wrong, because it would involve going nuclear, instead of doing the Hiroshima thing with conventional weapons of mass destruction, which is still morally acceptable, and won't be as horrifying to watch on CNN as the site of 48 mushroom clouds rising one by one over Baghdad.

The operation is called 'Shock and Awe', and the creator of the doctrine frankly admits that the idea is to do the Hiroshima thing on a civilian population so they will be shocked like Japan was during World War two, and also in awe of you for having done that to them, and thus will have no will to fight with you, so you can just march right into the country without having to fight anymore war after that. Hopefully that will work on Iraq just perfectly in the real world, just like it does on paper, otherwise the Americans will wind up having to fight urban warfare in Baghdad, you know what with that shock and awe turning out to work out the wrong way, say toughening resistance and creating national solidarity like it did in Germany and North Vietnam, thus screwing up the whole carefully designed plan. Well only time will tell, I guess.

Now I suggest that those who adopted that plan could very well be saved, heaven bound, born again Christians, and the reason why I say that is because according those prophecies of the United States of America that were so accurately fortold by Jeremiah so long ago, the capital of Iraq was to be so destroyed that 'no one could ever ever live there again...it will be a heap of ruins forever abandoned and never rebuilt', and, in otherwords, just completely wrecked. So you can see how with the preachers and prophets of the religious right telling everyone for close to a year now that America's invasion is the fulfillment of Jeremiah, and the Pentagon making war plans that agree with religious right prophets, well this could be the one time when those prophets were stunningly accurate, or perhaps the Pentagon has been born again. One or the other of those would have to be true, and given how bad religious right prophets typically are at predicting the future, I would tend to believe that the Pentagon was most likely washed in the blood of the lamb.

That shock and awe strategy could just be the ticket the Republicans need to achieve total world domination and get that whole deal of the New American Century up to speed. By doing the Hiroshima on the civilian populations of one country after another, leaving them all shell shocked and in awe of Pentagon, well they can finally at long last achieve that dream of killing lots of people in other countries while only reporting say perhaps 100 or 200 American casualties for each war. This does leave them with the problem of figuring out how to keep that other myth of the kind and compassionate Pentagon, carefully bombing tenderly around where civilians are, you know, so they won't get hurt. Now I have heard about the shock and awe theory to be tested on Baghdad, you know, to see if it works in real life as good as it works on paper, and at the same time I have also heard talking head pundits on television talking about the careful, and ever so tender, delicate planning being done by the Pentagon to make sure no civilians get hurt, but only politicians and other evil people like that. According to the talking head, well, the Pentagon has taken close to a year to work out that plan for the very reason that this is how long it takes to figure out how to bomb Baghdad without hurting anyone who isn't in public office. Well something is not right with this picture, but leave it to the Pentagon and their talking head supporters on television to try to have their cake and eat it too.

Yes the Pentagon will be doing 48 Hiroshimas on only the strategic command and control centers, which as you know, are just packed into Baghdad, along with a lot of other high value military targets. If we use Afghanistan as an example, well we can see that both the Red Cross (a strategic military food dump) and Al Jazeera (a naughty and disobedient television channel) were high value targets, and this tells us something of what we can expect in Baghdad. Now does the Baghdad Piggly Wiggly or the Safeway count as a high value target. I would think so. Now, thankfully Al Jazeera was out of the office in Afghanistan when the place got smart bombed, and so one could expect that Al Jazeera won't be stupid enough to rent office space in Baghdad for this war, and should it be the case that Al Jazeera wants to be in Iraq for Hiroshima, well this leads one to ask if Al Jazeera in a van counts as a strategic target and my answer would be, well yes, of course they do.

You would think that the Pentagon would want Al Jazeera in a van for this war, for as one of those Republicans behind the planning of the New American Century so arrogantly put it, not just Baghdad will be in shock and awe at what happens to Baghdad, but also all those troublesome Arabs around the Middle East. As he put it, they'll start being real quiet once the bombs start dropping. Hopefully that will work out as good in real life as it does on paper (or on the internet). Because you know I am sure everyone would prefer a bunch of terrorized Arabs being real quiet and behaving themselves from now on to a Middle East destablized and churning and tossing like the roaring sea. But let's just say that the planners of this operation are quite (arrogantly) sure that 48 Hiroshimas will be more than enough to cool down and tranquilize the entire Middle East, and they are in charge now and running things, so they must know what they are doing, right? So then perhaps this time the Pentagon should just leave Al Jazeera alone and not send one of those stealth planes or robot drone planes out to kill them, so they can help to shock and awe the whole Middle East into being quiet and obedient, and the Pentagon probably would, too, if it wasn't for the fact that Al Jazeera keeps showing pictures of babies with half their head blown off and all kinds of injuries and destruction.

Therefore, in this case, the Pentagon won't rely on Al Jazeera to help to discipline the Middle East. They will be getting bombed if the Pentagon can find them, and other Channels like CNN or the major American Networks can do that job of putting the whole Middle East into awe, since they at least could be counted on to the job properly, and not create troubles that will make matters even worse rather than better. If people want to imagine babies with holes blown in their heads, well let them, but under no circumstances should they actually be shown pictures of such things, since that is more likely to make them seeth like a cauldron instead of just being real quiet and obedient like their supposed to be if that plan just works perfectly like its supposed to. If I was Al Jazeera I would under no circumstances drive around Iraq in a van with a decal on it, but rather I would change cars frequently and maybe catch lots of cabs, if they have any cabs left in Iraq, cabs possibly being high value military targets as well, since you don't want the Republican Guard hailing a taxi and getting a lift to the front.

Now from what I heard the United States is finally getting some discipline put onto NATO, and thus bringing all those vetoes under control. I can only assume that finally, at long last, this weekend Washington folded and decided to give France and Germany more oil contracts from Iraq, instead of just stealing them all like they said they were going to do a couple of weeks ago. It goes without saying that such insulting diplomacy as what the Americans were using on France and Germany for the last couple of months is not the way to win friends and influence people.

First the Americans told France and Germany that 'the new government of Iraq was likely to rip up all their oil contracts' you know, if they found out that France and Germany weren't doing what they were told by Washington. Naturally, after having ripped up the oil contracts of France and Germany the 'new government of Iraq' would have to sign onto oil deals with the Americans, you know, out of gratitude for their freedom and the great selfless generosity that Washington D.C. always shows when they see that some unfortunate country is suffering under a dictator, such as in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan. As Bush so rightly said in the state of the Union address, Americans are not conquerers but rather they invade countries out of the goodness of their hearts to save the world from tyrants, you know, and sure it costs incredible billions to do these things, but even though you couldn't squeeze an extra quarter for welfare or medicare out of a Republican in Washington, for some reason the tyranny is something that moves them so deeply that next you know they are willing to spend in total more than double the cost of both welfare and food stamps together, or quadruple the amount if you count the first Gulf War, and even as much as five times as much if you count the expense of bombing Iraq for weekly and even daily for a decade.

But then never let it be said that conservatives like those Republicans can't be compassionate when something comes along that just tugs at their heart strings. The sufferings of countries under tyranny is something that really breaks them up, and as for the homeless freezing to death this winter, or the food banks struggling to keep up because of those food stamp cuts, or people getting kicked out of hospitals for not having insurance, well its just the case that these people just haven't packaged their sufferings and promoted them in such a way as to arouse the same sympathy in Washington that Republicans feel whenever they think about the sufferings of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps if someone would lord it over the homeless like a tyrant, or if hospitals would just be tyrannical, or even gas uninsured people to get them out of emergency wards, well that could be just the trick that turns the tide in Washington, D.C.

The tyranny also moves NATO, and that must be why they suddenly got that veto straightened out this weekend, either that or they finally got the Yankees to give back those oil contracts, you know, the ones the 'new government of Iraq' was going to take away from France and Germany and Russia and give to the Yankees instead, since they were being nice to Iraq by spending a huge fortune to bring them freedom out of the sheer goodness of their hearts. I assume then, that with the veto being straightened out, that France and Germany have finally been treated in a less insulting manner this weekend, and that whole oil contract feud that has been boiling for months is now settled to everyone's half assed satisfaction, no one really being happy with the compromise, not the Americans, who were seriously entertaining the notion of taking every last bit of oil, as they indicated to France and Germany, and not France and Germany who while they were bound to get robbed blind by the Yankees, aren't in any position to challenge the American military, and thus just have to be reasonable and accept whatever small amount of oil the Americans were offering, and that obviously was no where near enough, thus causing them to get supremely pissed off as those vetos and all the feuding that finally spilled over in public in recent weeks indicates.

Well France and Germany must have landed some kind of deal that they could grudgingly live with, and as for Russia, well that place is so ruined that a ten billion dollar bribe would probably be enough to get Russia to vote for anything, and Russia could actually make a business out of selling votes in the United Nations each time the Americans get ready to bomb a different country.

Now just how the Americans were going to deal with that threatened Chinese veto is an interesting question. Who knows what the Chinese wanted. They aren't as wrecked as Russia, so it seems unlikely that they have been holding out for a large bribe. It could just be that the Chinese are real worried about that plan to rule the world that the Republicans are working on step by step, with that third step leading to the 'containment of China' because in the whole world the only country the Republicans think might even possibly ruin their plans to rule the world for a hundred years would be China, and thus China needs to be contained. The best way to do that would be to invade North Korea and thus establish a presence right beside China, according to that plan for the New American Century, which must have been translated into Chinese, so I am sure they read about it, and I am sure they also read translations of the comments from Bush about how China was the 'strategic competitor' and you know what that means.

Fortunately North Korea is behaving like some bratty child, and now this morning threatening the world with nuclear war. This makes them different from all other countries where diplomacy demands that countries lie and talk all the time about how they don't want any weapon of mass destruction, and indeed, find the idea to be unthinkable. No they just want to run a nuclear plant to power their toasters and ovens, that's all. Well how convenient that the plan calls for the United States to conquer North Korea, and thus contain China by setting up shop right on their doorstep. Hopefully, it won't turn out like that last time the Americans did that, but with Mao dead, and Wal Mart running the country now, saner heads might prevail.

Now no one can dispute the fact that the Americans use some of the most insulting diplomacy on various countries ever heard in a long time. Just how they plan to get China not to create problems at the United Nations is a good question. I mean they could threaten to revoke China's most favored nation trading status and thus bring their extremely high growth rate to a grinding halt. This would have the advantage of also containing China real good, and maybe keeping them poor for the next hundred years. However it would also make Wal Mart really mad, and somehow I can't see the Republicans wanting to enrage one of the largest corporations on earth as well as one of their chief sponsors, and so that seems unlikely. So you can see just how troublesome that international diplomacy can really be, how thorny, how difficult. It seems to me that since Wal Mart has such a high revenue that it probably equals the GDP of about 40 or 50 third world countries slapped together, they probably deserve a seat on the United Nations Security Council themselves with a special veto that only applies to anything that might affect China.

Just how those Republicans figure they are going to both quarrel with China and keep Wal Mart happy is a real good question. And just how they plan to punish China should China continue to make problems for them at the U.N. is another good question, because you know how those Republicans really can't do much of anything regarding China on the international diplomatic chess board without first having it checked out by Wal Mart, and thus their options are quite restricted. They got that thing at NATO straightened out and now all they have to do is sit down with both China and Wal Mart and see if there isn't someway to hammer out some kind of deal with both of them that keep a lid on things for now, at least until the Republicans move on to that next step in their plan, where they will conquer North Korea and then sit there and use that place to contain China and just generally make a pain in the ass out of themselves by pestering China and making sure China doesn't get really rich by working for Wal Mart, well at least not in the next hundred years. That might not be the big problem the Republicans fear that it could be, because working for Wal Mart it would probably take a hell of a lot longer than a hundred years for China to get really rich and thus challenge the Global Domination of the United States, so they are probably making a mountain out of a mole hill in this particular case.

As for papering over that big dispute with France and Germany over that Iraq oil and thus preventing it from spilling out in public and causing any more damage than it already has, well that's a start, but that's probably all it is, a start. After all covering a giant hole in the wall with wall paper is not a solution, it just looks better, that's all. Let's just say that it is going to take some time for both France and Germany to get over the particularly insulting 'diplomacy' used on them both lately. I say France and Germany, because even though Russia was in on that little rebellion, I think that once the check is in the mail to pay for their vote, they'll probably behave themselves until next time, but France and Germany, well that's going to be a more serious problem to get fixed.

This is particularly true for a really, really old country in Europe like France, that's been around for such a long time, even longer than Germany which really isn't even as old as the United States, despite the fact that they were spoken of as a geriatric case by the Americans. No Germany and America are both from the same generation, and if America wants to insult Germany by pointing out what they call wrinkles, or making insulting comments about rapidly they seem to be showing their age spots, well so be it, but the really old country in Europe is France, and the anger of France is going to take a hell of a lot more than wall paper and a few scrappy oil wells to fix.

I seriously doubt if the French have ever had such insulting 'diplomacy' done on them, at least not since the days when they were shooting the British and the British were sinking all their ships. One can well imagine the shock of French diplomats who are used to the subtle innuendos, the skillful double talk and sly turn of a phrase, the much admired cleverness of a really skillful and deft diplomacy when they suddenly got diplomacy done on them by a bunch of Texan Yankee traders.

That must have come as real shock.

One can well imagine the shock of those French diplomats, after a long time spent sipping champagne that is several hundred years old, in rooms with marble walls that are at least 500 years old, discussing the delicate uances of the latest poetry, while the finest paintings in Europe hang on the wall, when, suddenly, a bunch of budweiser drinking Texans showed up to try a new kind of diplomacy on them, you know the kind of low brow, uncultured Texans who consider 'Married with Children' to a be a cultural export, and half a cow on a barbeque to be fine cuisine, while on the wall hangs some black velvet painting of a bull dog with a cigar playing pool, well to have such a collection of nose picking beer swilling Texans try such an insulting 'diplomacy' on the French was nothing but an outrage. Its going to take a long time for the French to get over that disgusting outrage, and until then NATO and the United Nations will just have to settle for new wall paper, at least until some different Americans, maybe some classy ones from Upper Manhattan who have visited all the museums of the world and have read all the classics finally at long last get into the White House.

Now as contemptible as those Texans find those champange sipping faggot Frenchmen, it is unfortunate but true that they will still have to put up with them because the polls say that the American public wants a United Nations resolution authorizing them to invade and conquer Iraq. They will probably just keep insisting on having a United Nations resolution each step of the way as those Repubicans conquer the world, and given how much utter contempt they have for the United Nations, that must be unbearable for the Republicans. I am sure that the United Nations has not been treated with such utter contempt or so frequently insulted since Reagan was in office. As those Republicans have put it, forgoing the characteristic language of diplomacy that all countries are so familiar with, the United Nations can pass United States resolutions, and thus give Washington that damnable fig leaf the voters are demanding, or the Republicans will just go ahead and do everything they have planned without the United Nations. If the United Nations wants to purchase a rubber stamp (they aren't that expensive) well then they can be relevant by rubber stamping resolutions for the United States, otherwise they can go straight to hell. Well that's blunt.

It could just be bluster and bravado, as well, since even Republicans with utter contempt for the United Nations are still, in great furious frustration I am sure, over there haggling with the fag diplomats of the world at the U.N. in spite of it all. You see what the polls are really saying is that the public does not trust those Republicans in Washington, and thus they want that plan to invade Iraq checked out by the United Nations. If the United Nations gives it the thumbs up, well then alright, there must be something to it after all, and they'll go, but if turns out to be the case that it is just those untrustworthy Republicans by themselves who want to invade Iraq well then no damn way are they supporting that one, since if it can't pass muster at the United Nations it must just be the case that those suspicious Republicans are up to something devious just like everyone strongly suspects they are.

Now if it should prove to be the case that all those countries in the United Nations are stupid enough to approve the Republican plans to conquer and rule the world, thus supplying that fig leaf, well then they deserve exactly what they will be getting, and I am sure the French will learn to live with having the world ruled by those rude, uncivilized, nose picking Texans, or they can just learn to hold their French noses in the other case. Unfortunately the American public puts to much trust in the United Nations, not realizing just how damn seedy the kind of wheeling and dealing can be that goes on among those members of the security council that actually have a veto. Feuding over oil wells, who gets which part of Iraq and how much, well its to disgusting to even imagine when the cameras are not rolling. And as for the United Nations giving a forum to something as worthless as that Colin Powell presentation, well that will be remembered throughout history as a low point for that place, if it turns out to be the case that they actually rubber stamp World Domiantion by the Bush Administration in Washington, D.C.

A perfect scenario might be for the United Nations to vote against the proposal while the veto members vote for it by themselves, and China, after being heavily pressured by Wal Mart abstains. Thus only a few countries with vetos would be seen voting for the thing, while the rest of the United Nations, or at least all the ones that didn't get bribed by Washington, or figure they can really get ahead in the New World Order while the country next door goes down the tank, well any country in the United Nations that has some integrity can vote against the thing, thus confusing main street America and making them wonder what is really going on over there.

From what I hear even some Arab countries like Egypt are signing on, as the Arab league is split, with some countries for listening to popular opinion, and others, the ones taking bribes from the Americans, like the government of Egypt being for the deal, which is ruinously harmful in that this would greatly impress the gullible American public in suburbia, thus making Arab countries like Egypt well worth bribing, and thus splitting the Arab league. Some countries, like Syria, won't be getting any bribes, since they are already on that second axis of evil list, you know the addendum to the first axis of evil list, and thus they can vote against it without it looking bad to middle America, while regimes like Egypt make Osama bin Laden sound like a prophet, by voting for it in anticipation of many more great big bribes to come.

As I said, it is unfortunate that middle America holds the United Nations in such high esteem, unaware of all the seediness associated with what goes in that place, with those Republicans they don't trust at all, going around corrupting the whole process by scheming away and bribing and practicing bad diplomacy and all the other things they have done, not because they respect the institution of the United Nations, they actually detest the place and regard it as below contempt, but what with America being very suspicious about those Republicans in the White Hosue, and demanding that the United Nations check everything out first, well you can see how that would throw a monkey wrench into that Republican plan to conquer the world, especially if they have to spend a year haggling and bribing the United Nations each time they want to invade some country. This is something that wasn't included in the careful planning of the New American Century documents, since apparently when those Republicans get up in the morning and look in the mirror they don't see the same thing that middle America sees, and thus the thought that such a thing might happen to them never occured to them.

But then you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. The frequently go down the tubes and the next you know you find yourself doing unacceptable things like compromising or just plain giving up on things, and no honest to God right wing hawk ever wants to seriously consider doing something like that...