China reaffirms its 'close' ties with Iran and the mutual benefits thereby derived - which is China's way of saying 'we value this strategic relationship and everything we do or say will be a reflection of that' - which is China's way of saying 'fuck you, America, this is our century: if your own president doesn't believe in American exceptionalism we sure as hell aren't gonna act as if it matters'.
And on cue Putin chimes in with a 'there's no need to rush Iran or get all up in their face with sanctions - everything is cool, man - just chill people' and then throws out tasty bit of info detailing how Russia has changed its rules of engagement concerning defense of the nation to allow for the use of nuclear weapons against threats even if the threat is conventional in nature. Nice.
As absurd as it was giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, what was more disturbing, once one stopped guffawing or laughing outright, was realizing that a great many people actually believed it was deserved, actually believe that the world is fundamentally changed for the better simply because Obama is president, regardless of any manifest accomplishments - that the world is better simply because Obama says it can be. It's shocking, dumbfounding - I'm found dumb by it.
And so it is 'drinking the cool-aid' no longer captures the degree of delusion that follows this man. He's tapped into a willful ignorance that surpasses mere stupidity, surpasses even the abject cretinism of the fatuously naive - it's as if he's accessed some pathological dementia, a vestigial obtuseness, that lurks in the shadows of the species' collective psychology waiting for a perfectly insipid incantation to call it stumbling into the pallid light - yes we can.
