What is good for the goose is good for the gander

       This expression applies to all, including the USA and Iran.

            The idea, said another way, is that we citizens can have our tax money spent in ways that bleed us dry in the long run. There are many books already written on this subject. Generally the theme is the decline of nations.

            Just look at WWII, for example.  Our ancestors in the USA got themselves into a war, lost hundreds of thousands of lives, incurred huge debts to fight the war, and endured many sacrifices. Even in the "Cold War", we built many air defense sites to protect many cities and locations from Soviet bomber attacks.  All this cost money, and we supported it by our taxes and representative's votes. Even Britain went through this process earlier, and at least are leaning forward during the times we live in today.

            Now even a relatively small regional power is doing much the same. I refer to Iran. I suggest they are bleeding themselves dry, that is their leaders are bleeding the citizens taxable income that they collect and can spend in order to include achieving their leaders goal of eradicating Israel, and the Jews in general. In the meantime the Iranian citizens also suffer a lot just from the various embargoes imposed on them. The obvious example is the missiles and rockets they build and export/smuggle to achieve their goals that do cost money. And they have so much, mostly due to energy income. It sure likes their leaders are bleeding themselves dry, like they can be exhausted of money and influence in the long run. In this case, if you even buy this argument, what are they going to do then? And don't forget they are mostly Shiite, and Persian to boot, so they have their own local problems with all their Arab neighbors and Sunnis, too. Add in things like they have divided command, the Army of God and the military, all competing with each other for financing. And competing oaths, I would add. Yep some of us still take our oaths honestly. And have you ever been rocketed? I have, and I did not like it.

            Others have tried this before, by the way. The Germans in WWII had the SS and the military competing for funding and control, too. The Japanese had the Army and the Navy each trying to win their own war their way. Both lost, I note.

            Is this a case of the tail wagging the dog?  It sure looks like it, that is is Iran exhibiting influence beyond its capacity to follow up, including taxable income that can be collected? Will they even use nuclear weapons, now that our present USA government as well as the local Arab governments have allowed this to apparently happen? Desperate people often do desperate things is often what happens, and why I worry. There is plenty of precedent for this, by the way. And depending on the season, even the monsoon winds and season would influence where all the contamination will go. For example, the recent tsunami in Japan had a lot of debris end up in Hawaii and north America. Then what are we humans going to do?

            Are we going to go the route of our ancestors, and all the suffering they endured? It sure looks it could happen to us, like in our lifetime.

            Now for me, I just want to make some local electricity from water power (with some solar, too), and grow some food in the warm season, and put some of it up for the cold season. After all we do have eat year round, and I have to worse case that my local grocery store will be down.  Even, while I don't hunt, I am even learning how to use snares to catch animals like rabbits, like before the coyotes eat them. After all, they have to eat, too.  Heck I will even start a fox hole today just to protect myself from fellow hungry human beings who have to eat, too. What a sad state of affairs if you should think like I do, and sense what is probably going on.

            I suspect many others are thinking this way, too, if you interpret all the buying frenzy going on during this holiday season in the USA.

            After all, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.  Figure that out as it might apply to you where you live.