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"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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I watched the President's update re: Iran last night. He looks tired. Overall I must say I was disappointed in several things.

I know, laugh now. It's okay.

He seemed to start off fairly well, but I think it's time to let go of the comparisons with his predecessors, to begin with. I haven't seen, watched, read any of the commentary by media outlets, not past the headlines anyway, I'd rather just absorb what he says without being told what I'm supposed to think and feel about it.

One thing I did notice in the headlines was the medias disappointment that he didn't tell them what was coming next. To do so seems like a dumb idea, kind of like the coach running across the field and informing the opposing team of what the next play is. Not a good idea.

Something that really bothered me was that he did not emphasize the notion that we are not, or at least should not be at war with the Iranian people who have been suffering for a long time under the ruthless regime there. Several times he made mention of the notion of bombing them "back to the stone age, where they belong". That doesn't sit well with me. I would rather he had focused on freeing their people from the oppression that has dominated their lives, and the goals of their government. People are still people and deserve consideration even though they exist in the land of insane determination to destroy their neighbors.

Next, or still, he just can't stop bloviating, to borrow Bill O'Reilly's expression. I think it's just intrinsic to his nature, he has to keep blowing his own horn. It got old a long time ago. I would have preferred that he magnify that we don't want to "bomb them back to the Stone Age", we just want them to cease and desist from killing their citizens, seeking nuclear weapons, and plotting and funding terror operations against other people and religions.

Our goal should be to assist the people of Iran in gaining independence from fanaticism and living peacefully with the rest of the world in a state of freedom. I hope for that possibility.

As I've said before, if the information he acted on is factual, I understand the why of our actions. But I deeply wish that it had not been necessary. A nuclear Iran is untenable, so is an Iran that cannot be restored to a state of peaceful freedom.

All that said, I believe Iran will continue to retaliate in the ways that they always have, by targeting the innocent. We seek out and destroy military targets, which sadly the Iranians hide within civilian populations. They seek out and destroy civilian targets without regard to guilt or innocence. It's what they do, proven over and over again.

What the hell is wrong with people?