M.A.D.

March 2, 2016

On the last day of March and the first day of April, fifty world leaders met together in Washington, D.C. to discuss the threats from nuclear proliferation and weaponization. While Russia and the United States can claim to own the vast majority of the world's nuclear arsenal, President Obama warned those in attendance that, "ISIL has already used chemical weapons — there is no doubt if these madmen ever got their hands on a bomb or nuclear material they would use it to kill as many as possible."

M.A.D. Originally, it stood for Mutually Assured Destruction. Now, it means our Commander-in-Chief must be mad, delusional and pathological. 

Like so many utterances during this man's administration, my brain suffers a mild concussion from the cognitive dissonance on display. You know what cognitive dissonance is, because you've been subjected to it repeatedly during the last eight years. The actual definition is, "the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change." 

The Obama administration is currently exploring new options to grant Iran more sanctions relief than promised under the comprehensive nuclear agreement reached last year, described by the President as the "carrot and stick" approach. So far, Iran has enjoyed all the carrots and the world seems to suffer under a beating. Sanctions on a nation still categorized as a major sponsor of terror have been lifted with rapidity, while the Supreme Leader of Iran mocks our leniency by flouting the few remaining restrictions with impunity.

On Thursday, Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk expressed their displeasure at dubious results of President Obama's deal with Iran: “We are gravely alarmed by news reports suggesting the administration is working to give Iran access to the U.S. financial system or to dollar transactions outside of the U.S. financial system. Any such effort would benefit Iran’s financiers of international terrorism, human rights abuses, and ballistic missile threats.”

In January, John Kerry admitted that some of the 55 billion dollars in "relief" provided to Iran, in exchange for nothing more than blatant contempt, "will end up in the hands of the IRGC or other entities, some of which are labeled terrorists." And in an mind-snapping display of cognitive dissonance, he added, "If we catch them funding terrorism, they are going to have a problem with the United States Congress and other people, obviously. We are confident that this will not result in an increase somehow in the threat to any partner or any friend in the region." Israel would disagree. 

President Obama congratulated himself on Iran's continued misbehavior by telling the world leaders and media, "We cannot be complacent. We have to build on our progress."

There are several conclusions to be drawn by this display of psychopathology. If he believes this rot, he's suffering from denial or delusions. If he wants us to believe this rot, he suffers from a manipulation disorder. Nuclear proliferation is just his bogeyman of the moment. The fact that the majority of Americans don't call him out for being a pathological liar is what should really scare us.