"Look, 20 years from now, I'm still going to be around, God willing.
If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it's my name on this. I think it's fair to say that in addition to our profound
national-security interests, I have a personal interest in locking this
down." - Barack Obama
The old alchemical dream was changing base metals into gold. The new
alchemical dream is: changing one’s personality—remaking, remodeling,
elevating, and polishing one’s very self . . . and observing,
studying, and doting on it.- Tom Wolfe
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White- suited Wolfe would have voted for Socrates' guilt. Or Sartre's. But Obama is not existentialist, rather a stoic. He well understands that global warming will take out his grandchildren. But ever since Reagan, the President has played the role of the patsy, the guy in the conspiracy who takes the blame and has no possible personal interest in anything he does (Bush not Cheney) except for his presidential library. Nuclear weapons have nothing to do with fossil fuel extraction or banking, or Iranian ambitions. But in the era of presidential cover stories it helps to have an imaginary agreement shut down a non-existent problem. Seymour Hersh could explain this as the expiration of a legend, something like the end of the myth of communism when fossil fuel extraction became the pentagon's raison d'etre.
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