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My best friend in the world received
engineering and law degrees from Cal Berkeley, after his tour in Viet
Nam. Today we use e-mail and the phone, but back then, for
several years, we exchanged weekly letters.. I'll call him i-Pod.
I loved his Berkeley letters, because he reveled in tweaking the pasty
faced, anti-war students who dominated campus politics. Remember
the scene in Forest Gump, where Gump, wearing his newly received Medal of Honor, runs into the anti-war protestors, and they assume he must be a John Kerry ass-wipe? Same thing with i-Pod.
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Went
to a campus mixer to survey the local talent. One starry eyed hippie
girl was obviously smitten by my notoriety. We drank wine
out of paper cups, and she asked if I'd witnessed any
atrocities? I said
no. I told her that I did have a door gunner (he, a Huey
pilot) who could dot the eye of a slope and his water
buffalo with a single burst from 2000 feet. She nearly passed out. No pussy, but it was
worth it.
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iPod got the hell out of there after graduation from law school, and if
he went back today, it would be in the pilot's seat of my B-52.
I'm telling you this because Mo Sup just called me in to watch a
retired CIA operative, Robert Baer, on CBS News Sunday
Morning. The segment introduced Baer and his CIA wife from their
retirement home in .... Berkeley, CA.
From whence they had also graduated many years back. "Oh-oh," was
my first thought. Visions of Valerie and Mr. Plane danced in my
head. I was right.
Baer's message is that Iran is about to dominate Middle Eastern, and we
have to recognize that dominance, and dance with them. This,
after he listed the string of attacks on the United States that Iran
has engineered. "But wouldn't that be rewarding bad behavior," countered the interviewer? "Yes. but so what,"
replied Baer. He hopes President Obama, whom he's been
advising, will take his advice and play nice with Iran's
Mullah's. The question of Iran's vow to nuke Israel out of
existence wasn't asked.
I get the feeling we're in the process of being rolled here, and
this is a pre-conditioning exercise. Trust me on
this. People who graduated from Cal Berkeley, and return to
live out their lives, are not to be trusted. Neither are people
who take their advice.
PS. We watched the Coen Brother's comedy of CIA errors Burn After Reading
last night. It received bad reviews, but I liked it a lot.
Not so much, MoSup. By picking Leon Panetta to be the next CIA
director, Obama signals that he views the CIA as a joke too.
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