Reading through today’s newspapers and blogs, the attention appears to be centring on the impending attack by Israel using low yield nuclear weapons, and the almost imminent war that would follow, with the US and UK going to the aid of Israel as Iran retaliates. 

We see reports in the press that the US is building up its forces again in the region, both in Iraq and on the Afghan side of the Iranian border, and giving overall command in the region to a Naval Officer, who no doubt would wage a first war on Iran from carrier bound aircraft. 

It wouldn’t be the first time that we have used Israel as the surrogate aggressor.  Suez is the prime example.

This entire scenario reminds me of a joke that I heard several years ago, in which an Arab Leader asks the US president why there were no Arabs in StarTrek. Because it is set in the future replied the president. 

How much truth is there in Jest.  Something years ago that I thought both harmless and impossible, now seems disgusting, frightening and possibly real.