The Mullah's Strike Back

I'm reminded of the children's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as I read the latest on Iran this morning. If that were not enough, it appears that Iran has also expelled CNN.

I don't like the Clinton News Network either, but this is too much. I think that for once CNN actually spoke the truth as it really is. What's more, is this oil development. Once again we face a situation of a country willing to go "over the line" in terms of oil production and dispensing to other countries. Russia has already demonstrated that it was willing to cut off a country from its supply, and the step to dramaticly raise oil prices in response to any action the USA and the rest of the West may take to contain Iran's ambitions and protect the rest of the planet may only be a precursor to a cutoff as tensions escelate. There's no good way out of this, just bad and ugly, but when dealing with a regime that is lead by those like the current president of Iran, this is what it comes to. Iran is in control at this point and its president knows this, hence the flexing of such economic muscle.

Who will play their cards better in this international/political poker game? Let's hope that, having grown up in Texas, President Bush is a excellent Texas Hold 'em player...if that in fact is the name of the game.