Ok, let’s see what’s going on today.  The boss is taking an unscheduled day off, the dryer at home has died (again) and I’m still not used to the new uniform.  

It was a good weekend, with lots of downtime and no major drama.  Our big event was taking the kids to see the Winslow Homer Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art.  THE WOMAN and I had a great time, but the kids didn’t have the attention span to do it justice.  It always amazes me how crowded the Gallery is.  

This morning there are a couple of editorial/op-ed pieces in the Post about Iran.  While I agree that the current regime in Iran should not be trusted with nuclear power, I do think that eventually the planet needs to rely primarily on atomic power for electricity.  It produces energy cheaper and cleaner overall than coal does, and it leaves the planet intact instead of strip mined.  When it comes to Iran, I’m in the camp of Senator McCain.

We should bomb the hell out of them now while we have the chance and deal with the consequences later.  It may sound short sighted, and is clearly very un-PC.  But if we let a radical fundamentalist get access to the Bomb we are screwing ourselves.  It you think the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, doesn’t have the balls to use a nuclear warhead you are out of your tree.

The MidEast is the most volatile region in the world and to allow what is basically a rouge state to possess nuclear strike capability is wrong.  Like it or not, we are the only superpower in the world, and it looks to be that way for at least another 20 years.  We have to use this small window in time to shape the policies of other nations so that they conform to what is in OUR long term interests.  If it means that we become an occupying force in South West Asia for the next half a century, then so be it.

It’s about time we starting living up to our responsibilities as a Republic.

More later.