A Whole Lot of Nothing About a Lot

It's remarkable how quickly both chambers of the U.S. Federal Legislature can act and in such unison when what they vote on is of no consequence at all, and it always makes me wonder why they bothered. Over 400 members of the House, with only one contrary vote, just passed a resolution that condemns the Iran regime for accepting the almost certainly fraudulent official results of that country's recent national elections.

Any fool knows that, going on what they've done for a good long while now, this resolution will cause the leaders of Iran to lose all of five seconds of sleep. No matter what anyone in the U.S. Congress or anywhere else in the U.S. or the E.U. or Israel says, the Iranian clerics and what-not will just keep marching straight on ahead with whatever they want to do, whether or not they're supported by China and Russia, which at present they are. They don't care, and that was evident from the day they grabbed all those U.S. hostages, which was many years ago now and didn't result in anything collapsing there.

I know. I saw it on the faces of all those tough young demonstrators on TV, who now are tough middle-age guys with the same faces.

It's been a long time since U.S. Congressional huffing and puffing blew any houses down. In fact I don't know that it ever did, and the Iranians have to work this out on their own, and they either will or they won't.

Iran is like China. It's too big a country for anyone to want to mess with, though Saddam Hussein certainly tried. But he was never the swiftest bird on the block. He was the toughest but not the smartest, and he just added more temper to the Iranian steel.