The Corbomite Maneuver, Revisited

We need more geeks in government! Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has obviously watched some Star Trek. I was struck by the wily bastard's face down of the Western Powers and the UN. It bore a remarkable resemblance to the redoubtable Capt. Kirk's face down of a alien vessel (captain by a bald child played by Roan Howard's mutant brother) To save the Enterprise from certain destruction, Kirk uses bluff, baravado, and a little white lie about something called "Corbomite," an erstwhile component in all Federation ships, he claims, which blows the hooey out of anyone foolish enough to successfully destroy one. This bamboozles the much more powerful aliens, who chicken out instead. Sound familiar? A geek administration would have spotted this forty-year old plot device with ease. Instead, the current Fratboy administration took the boondoggle and left this crazy Klingon bastard out their in the desert, playing brinkmanship. Beam me up, Scotty, I'm in a world of shit down here!