Let Your Scent Speak

 "I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after twenty-five years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents and now we actually have a president who actually knows how to accomplish America's national security objectives."

If you've been curious about what the Vice (and if you're wondering about "Vice" yes we include molesting furniture) President has been up to, those were the words Julius Domingo Vance used to calm the Americans who are exhausted by foreign entanglements in the Middle East.

Sort of makes you wish that he would have stayed curled up in the basket at the end of the bed.

This oddly stilted reassurance came in the midst of the former game show host, Mister Tarrif, announcing a cease-fire between Israel and Iran. A cease-fire that included a missile attack on the United States military base in Qatar as well as targets inside Israel. Israel retaliated by bombing a radar station near Tehran. Doesn't sound like a "cease-fire" to me. 

Sounds to me, if I may be allowed to echo the pejorative used by Juan Dulce Vance, like someone was being a little dumb. 

Dropping bombs on people doesn't send a message of peace, especially when you call your mission "Midnight Hammer." Unless you're promoting a new fragrance from Dior, those kinds of names tend to incite violence rather than deter it. Like knowing that dad's arm can't really reach you in the back seat, you can just go right ahead smacking your brother. Until somebody pulls the car over. 

Or until we send troops in "to establish and advise" the terms of this illusory settlement. But history suggests that doesn't really work either. Not learning from histoy is dumb. 

But nobody said these guys were smart.