A Clockwork Campaign

Hilary, when asked about Iran's nuclear ambitions, threatened to obliterate Iran, which is another way of saying "wipe it off the map." Since she is in the middle of a political campaign and she has not, as far as I know, hitherto expressed other equally repulsive genocidal views, we may write it down as a campaign quirk. However, it shows that Ms. Clinton knows what really works with Americans: a genocidal threat, such as "bomb them back to the stone age". There are some that will say that we always are about to "bomb them back to the stone age!", but after a chill out period, cooler heads always prevail. This does not take a lot of history into account, however. The Iraq War did not experience much input from those "cool" heads at all. The majority of the input was from raving geeks like Wolfowitz, or locker room bullies and cryptos like Limbaugh. (note: a "crypto" is still in the broom closet.) When the shooter opens fire at students walking on the Quad, we keep acting as if we cannot fathom what is going on. It is a sign that our view of reality is phoney: a stretch of boredom punctuated by gunshots and intermittent excitement. Reality is always exciting. If we saw the Real World, we would be excited. We only see the Real World when some poor crazed individual can't stand it anymore and rushes out to get a gun to stir things up. Similarly, the USA cannot feel properly alive and vibrant and full of the "rockets' red glare" unless it senses itself doing a bit of map wiping or acting as a stone age drover.