Semi Truths

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer only a few days after CBS’s 60 Minutes dubbed him “half Renaissance man, half rodeo cowboy”. The governor came to Charlottesville in an appearance sponsored by the UVA Center for Politics  to talk about biodiesel and alternative energy. I liked him immediately.

He is a Democratic Governor in a Red state with less than one million residents, and with a Republican Lt. Governor. He is a rancher and an agricultural scientist. He has built roads in Africa and irrigated croplands in Saudi Arabia. He may be “the next best hope of the Democratic Party“, and now he has done something else great.

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I would like to suggest a proposal regarding the Iran nuclear situation that, to my knowledge, has not yet been put forward.

The Administration is worried that Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear power generation are just a guise for developing nuclear weapons. Pundits are proclaiming that, once it is a nuclear power, Iran will threaten Israel. The International community favors diplomacy, the White House prefers saber rattling, and the rest of us think this all sounds awfully familiar and wonder whether the U.S. is going to invade Iran tomorrow or wait until the weekend…

I say: let ‘em have The Bomb.

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The Charlottesville Democratic Party is driving me crazy! Four years ago, an internicine fight caused them to run a weakened candidate for City Council. Meanwhile, the minority Republican party unified behind a single crazy person and he actually got elected!

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