Maxiavelli: I concede, Last Post

I concede: Politics is a rotten game
For years, I have been hearing people saying that Politics is dirty and I have always retorted that Politics is not dirty, most politicians are. But today I concede: politics is dirty - I mean, the art of government per se is not dirty; but the activities politicians (and governments) choose to engage in are.

Most politicians lack morals; and because they lack morals, the world is in the beautiful state it is. For example, after the WWI and WWII the West decided that it hadn't had enough of conflicts (regardless of the reasons behind the decisions taken) and, thus, decided to play with other people's land, history, traditions and identity. Indeed, the Kurds lost their land; the Jews lost nearly 80% of its historical homeland; Indians lost Pakistan and Bangladesh...and the world didn't get any better because of this, au contraire.

Of course, the nations involved in the political chess game never admitted to their mistakes and, since the world looked up to them to be led by them, they simply continued playing with people's lives in Africa, in Latin-America, in Asia...

By this time, dear reader, you must be thinking "Don't say I didn't tell you so, Maxiavelli!"...yes, yes, yes...you told me. But, I am a politicoholic.

Politicians have been allowed to play for far too long. Enough.
Politics has been wallowing in the oily mud for far too long. Time to bathe.
Parents spend half their time teaching their children that they must always prefer the truth; that if they need to manipulate they must do it with honour; that the Light is always better than Darkness (although sometimes we may have to walk through the Valley of the Shadows). Yet their efforts are made redundant when politicians disauthorise them by teaching their children, by example, that lying is the only way to succeed; that honour is démodé and that Darkness is the right path.

I concede: Iran is not ready to change
The Iranian charm offensive did not impress me. President Rouhani's mild rhetoric did not inspire confidence. Iran's deal with the West is just a way of entertaining the US, France, Britain and Germany while the nuclear programme proceeds (under a different shape). However, I believed that we could work with Iran given their cold pragmatism (a characteristic I identify with); but, after observing Persia's revolutionary regime, I concede: Iran is neither as cold nor as pragmatic as I thought it was - go ahead, Supreme Leader, call me "roguish, filthy, rabid dog" if you wish; but know that those words are proof of political fear...

Iran is not ready to change - and I am not talking about the fact that Ayatollah Khamenei felt it wise to instruct his negotiators to tell the West that Iran doesn't intend to "change one iota" from its nuclear rights (as I pen down these words I smirk before the Iranian predictability and public confession). Iran is not prepared to change because while it stresses the existence of a divide between Sunnis and Shiites, it works with the Sunnis to destabilise global security. The Revolutionary Guards are known, in some circles, for financially supporting Sunni elements (including members of the several Palestinian Terror Groups) in order to attack Western & Israeli targets all over the world.
So, I definitely capitulate: we cannot work with Iran. And since we cannot work with Persia, we should not allow it to have nuclear weapons; lest they supply Hezbollah, Hamas, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (and even Al-Qaeda if they decide to expand their foreign policy strategies) with nuclear material to commit terrorist acts against the very same people who are giving them preeminence in a silver plate.

To be proficient in the art of disinformation is diplomatically desirable. To be proficient in the art of dissimulation is worthy of a fraud.

And with this capitulation, Maxiavelli bids farewell. This post is the last one of the series: thank you ever so much for having followed my Machiavellian thoughts.

Before leaving you, my devoted readers, I would like to wish חנוכה שמח (Happy Hanukkah) to the Jewish People around the world; and Happy Thanksgiving to the American People.