Common Sense

I've been fortunate lately to hear some extremely simple common sense ideas that benefit people.

In the clip, Obama makes the simplest of points regarding the huge overblown reaction that Bush has taken with Iran. The stuff that builds Iran up as some kind massive monster that will turn America into an itty bitty morsel.

Obama points out that the USA under Kennedy and Reagan, talked with the Russians. There was diplomacy, at one point it was called detente. Remember? That Nixon talked with Mao. Simply expressed, Russia and China represented greater threats to the US in the form of nuclear holocaust than anything that Iran could represent.

Are the issues with Iran of the same magnitude as those that faced the US with the USSR. Hardly. The USSR had annihilation facing the USA in the form of nuclear missiles. Iran has yet to develop the bomb.