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January 18, 2010 - 8:46 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2010-01-19 00:45:24

Some things are too serious for light verse, and this is one of them. My principal concern is that an intervening event will change the calculus. There is every indication that Israel will attack Iran before the Persian bomb is ready to go, and if that happens this summer, then all domestic bets are off, as we will be at war with Iran, who will close the Straits of Hormuz, which we cannot permit to remain closed. In that event, I see the people rallying behind the president, as we always do, and this president ruling by decree, pretty much as FDR did during WW2, all with the consent of the governed. Obama’s agenda is not health care, it is the destruction of the United States in its present form and its rebirth as a Marxist/Leninist state, as outlined by Alinsky and the Frankfurt crowd. My fear is that under cover of wartime patriotism he may get away with it.