I’m struck by the idea that the US, and others in the West, may be trying to goad Iran into a war.  Before they get the atomic bomb.  It would explain the assassinations, the tension in the Straits of Hormuz, the conflict in Syria and the drumbeat for more sanctions.

Tricking Iran into a war may not be a bad idea but it is very Machiavellian and if it doesn’t work you end up with a very angry pariah nation with a bomb.   If it does work it might save Israel, keep the oil flowing and make Hillary Clinton President.

Note the roman numeral.  This is the first of three geopolitical thinking posts all with quotes that are almost nonsequiturs.  Yes the spelling is correct.  I had to look in a printed dictionary.  Since the Microsoft office dictionary doesn’t have a good sense of the absurd and therefore doesn’t have “nonsequitur” in it.