Storybook Tigers

Don't let the recent rocking motion and lullaby's emitting from the United Nations put you to sleep. There is a storm a brewing out there and it could be quite serious. The players wear the jerseys of Team Israel and Team Iran and playing the role of sports commissioner may be China, whose salary might come in the form of oil rather than a millions of dollars a year signing bonuses. Israel doesn't like to be pushed around and bullied and when they gaze upon the horizon and see nuclear weapons aimed their way they can get really testy.

China has earned a lot of money off the loan they provided the U.S. Apparently they take this money they earn and invest it in buying assets and building plants in Iran. It's quite a vicious circle isn't it? We go to war in the Middle East to fight terrorism/or/ to protect our oil interest; you choose the option you prefer. The bottom line is a war, lots of lives lost and little resolution. This mess gets really expensive and our till is a little empty, so we look around for someone with available funds. Up steps China, oh I bet they could hardly contain themselves when they heard that knock on their door. So while we are fighting the devils in one direction, we find devils in another direction that we can cuddle up to all warm and fuzzy like. Round and round we go like the greedy tigers in The Story of Little Black Sambo, until we melt in a pool of butter.

I hope I'm not around when the melt-down occurs because I think it might be quite painful. I get so frustrated because things seems to happen so fast sometimes and once they get going it's like a giant boulder rolling down a steep hill, almost unstoppable, like those greedy tigers…