Meddle East

First, they coined the term 'Axis of Evil' - Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Obviously, whoever coined this term had no idea of georgraphy or geometry because these 3 countries don't form a straight line. They tackled Iraq and now there are more eruptions on a daily basis than all active volcanoes combined. If you are an "average" Iraqi, (a "mean" Iraqi. Talking of statistics, median is actually an anagram of Medina. Hmm, interesting) the chances of you getting killed when you make that routine trip to your neighborhood souk is only slightly less than the chances of an UK resident getting killed by the MRSA superbug at his/her nearest NHS hospital. So, you can imagine how dangerous Iraq is!!

Now, the attention has turned to Iran (North Korea tried to attract attention many times but they cant get their rockets to fly higher than the Sivakasi rockets). I was wondering why Blair went to Palestine this week. He went there to call upon on the moderate Muslim states to form an alliance over Iran. I wonder why nobody has called this strategy 'The Blair Doctrine' (Blair Witch Project has been beaten to death already). Here is my take on this

The root cause lies in the bickering between 10 and 11 Downing Street (For the uninitiated, 11 is Gordon Brown's residence). Gordon Brown has been pestering Blair to step down just like an overenthusiastic 13 year old going 'Daddy, daddy,I want to drive your car' ....but Blair has been going 'Nahi beta, you are not ready'. So, irritated with his neighbor, Blair thought "Who do I hate most right now? Iran, isin't it? I will ask all of Iran's neighbors to gang up against Iran and cause trouble. Then, Gordon will have a bigger headache than mine to solve. 2 birds with 1 stone. He he he he he. I will have the last laugh before I step down". Blair is preaching the opposite of 'Love thy neighbor'. When have neighbors been solutions anyway? See Desperate Housewives, for example.

I wonder if Bush and Blair read 'Middle East' as 'Meddle East'...