A guest on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show griped about Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.  He said that Iran is not "a normal country."  He may have meant a country dedicated to living peacefully on this world.  A true democracy, where votes count, like they did in the U.S. 2000 presidential election. 
     If Israel is a normal country, then so is the United States and Russia, all three chronically engaged in warfare, used to killing unarmed women and children, practicing belligerence towards wanted lands.
     Jeb Bush, at an agricultural convention in Iowa attended by several GOP presidential hopefuls, complained about Obama's foreign policy, saying America must be feared.  Apart from the fact there are millions of Iraqis, Yemenis, Pakistanis, Afghans, Syrians, and Iranians who already fear the U.S., Bush doesn't seem to realize that his fear wish suggests he would like to be a terrorist.  Terrorism is the use of fear for political ends.  Terrorism is the practice of "normal" countries. 
     Iran, too, sponsors and practices terrorism, making it quite normal by nation-state standards.  Hannity's guest would have us believe Israel is an innocent nation mortally threatened by fanatical Muslims a few steps away from obtaining nuclear weapons, which they would, of course, immediately launch at Israel, and perhaps even at the United States.  I've read Captain America comic books with more plausible scenarios.  Remember that in 2002, Dick Cheney gave a doomsday speech about the proof of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program coming to America in "the form of a mushroom cloud."  This did not happen, nor could it, since imaginary nukes don't blow up, except in novels, movies, and comic books.  However, his message, reinforced by President Bush and Condoleezza Rice in separate speeches, made an effective impact on Congress.  The Iraq War, launched the following year, was based on improbable and fictional scenarios presented as truth by liars seeking to please oil corporations. 
     Iran's leaders, who have demonstrated they're at least smart enough to rise to their positions of power, are not stupid enough to attack Israel with a nuclear strike.  Israel has nuclear weapons now, and an arsenal of conventional weapons and the will to use them, making that normal, powerful, belligerent country a much feared nation in the region.  Palestinians in the Gaza Strip know very well the brutal force let loose by righteous Israeli politicians, with U.S. consent.
     Jeb Bush might want to spread more fear, but he should consider that the members of ISIS like to do that, too.
    
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