Things seem to be getting a bit tense in the Middle East. The EU has given Iran a deadline on stopping its nuke program or they will impose sanctions, the Iranians have threatened to close the Straits of Hormuz, and the US has responded by sending two aircraft carriers to the region. I saw a picture of maximum leader Ayatollah Khamenei, and he looked a bit sad. Was it because even the United States of Obama was stiffening its spine? Kind of reminded me of that old 60s Bob Dylan song, Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands.

 

 

With your turbaned head and your silken robe

And your barbered beard and your eyes that probe

And your ears so pink and with a diamond’d lobe

How could anyone resist you

With your sabers sharp and your flintlocks primed

And your blustered threats that have always rhymed

You think that everything is neatly timed

And Obama has just kissed you

Sad eyed Mullah of the Lowlands

Sad eyed Mullah don’t you see me there

B-2s waiting by your garden gate

Sad eyed Mullah shall I wait

Sad eyed Mullah shall I wait

Macedon of old was just a tiny thing

And Alexander killed the Persian king

What’s the feeling that those memories bring

Could it be that they depress you

See the ocean with the ships of gray

And the sky where all the Hornets play

And the missiles turning night to day

Surely they impress you

Sad eyed Mullah of the Lowlands

Sad eyed Mullah don’t you see me there

Hornets waiting by your garden gate

Sad eyed Mullah shall I wait

 

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