What will Mitt do about the Arabs?

The realities of American politicking at the presidential candidate nomination level are finally beginning to take hold. It is clear that Mitt Romney commands a respectable and commanding lead in the Republican race. All that his opponents can now hope for is some deus ex machina twist of fate that would knock Mitt out of the lead.

Failing that, he will win the nomination but not necessarily the presidential election. Mitt is by far the most boring of all the contenders and as president he may well succeed in lulling our nation into four years of moronic sleep. If so, we would undoubtedly awake, like the fairy tale princess kissed by a frog, to a better world.

Assuming, of course, all other things being equal which in this day and age is a seriously false assumption. Iran worries me.

Like Winston said, America gets it right after having exhausted all the alternatives. In our quest to pacify the Middle East, we took on Iraq, al-Qaida, Afghanistan, Libya, and lent moral support to democratization movements in Lebanon, Egypt and Syria while siding with the status quo in Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. We also did a bit of everything in Yemen,.  

Perhaps we should have gone to the core of the problem by initially confronting the Shiite zealots of Iran straight away. We paved the way for the ayatollahs to gain power in the first place, we may as well reverse the move and rid ourselves of these meddlesome clerics. We cannot afford not to under the thesis that additional nuclear powers are anathema to world stability.

In the end, I believe, we will support Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities by providing them the necessary ordinance in the first place and protection from retribution in the second. In the process, we secure, at least for the time being, the amity of the Sunni Muslim world and at least a partial reconciliation with the Israelis and those expatriate Jews who support Israel.

We also cut off root support for Hezbollah  and sundry independent, wannabe and spurious terrorist efforts around the world.