Calmer heads always prevail

Common sense, time, and national self interest always wins out in the end. In this time of political campaigns, isn’t it amazing how quickly so many pundits who write for a living, along with a few politicians, jump on the bandwagon of the recent declassified NIE report, basically an unclassified executive summary of a much much larger and classified report. As the pundits go about their writings about this unclassified report, they tend to line up according to their political persuasion, and who hired them. With all the MSM derision by much of the public about prejudice in reporting, it is amazing so many writing can still make a living these days. Use your imagination and fast forward about five years, and imagine if these same people will be in the same business. Most American citizens will opt for news, vice writer’s opinions.

Here’s why the imagination is justified. While nobody knows the future, and being a soothsayer is a most dangerous business (career wise at least), the willingness of so many pundits to take the chance of the Iranians having bad intentions for our country is, well, astounding if ignored. And even discounting the recent NIE unclassified executive summary, there is a pattern of behavior by the mullah Iranian present leadership going back decades that should alarm most Americans. Amplify all this with we and the pundits are not the only people in the world, and what happens and is written about and debated about inside of D.C. is not the be all, or end all. Those who think or know otherwise are about two decades behind the times. Perhaps the path to the American future will take the federal government to work together again for our common good, with a little savvy and conniving thrown in as we “engage” in the real world.

Intrinsically, one should trust the unclassified executive summary of the Iranian nuclear programs. I trust it has been through an intensive and thorough vetting process. And if in the end, it is a political document promoted by three fellows who bombastically forced themselves, well that too will come out in the end. But in the interim, it is not the time to take our pack off, so to speak. The Iranian pattern of behavior is against our National Interests. And this same pattern is also against may other regional nation's National Interests.

Collectively, let calmer heads prevail. Most in the region are already doing this, as if they are already on auto-pilot. It’s the herd mentality inside of D.C. and the punditry that can be more dangerous to our National Interests and current events. Sometimes being steadfast is just as important as being smart.