America's real enemy, Bearded Bruce, is its own grandiose imperial ambitions, its own corrupt government and financial systems, and its own dramatic social and moral decline...not the various smaller countries around the world that it invades, persecutes, and exploits.

If Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon, they have every reason for doing so. The possession of a few nuclear weapons and a means to effectively launch them is the only possible way they could prevent America from someday doing to them what it did very recently to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

America is the aggressor in this scenario, not Iran. Like the millions of ordinary Germans and Japanese who patriotically supported their countries' grandiose imperial efforts in the 40s, you just don't get it, because you can only see the situation in terms of your own national viewpoint...and you imagine that your nation is under threat. Your nation is the one doing the threatening and launching the invasions. Your nation. Not Iran or Iraq or Afghanistan.

You are not the injured party. They are. A few of your people die in the wars your government has planned and chosen. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of their people die, are maimed, lose their homes and loved ones, see their socieities demolished, and suffer foreign occupation. They are the victims of your government's imperial policies.

You're living under an Orwellian system, BB, like in 1984, and you're cheering for Big Brother, and you don't know it.

As for Obama, he's what all presidents are. He's a front man, mostly just a puppet on strings. He is not the Big Brother you're unwittingly cheering for, he is the face that Big Brother puts on your TV screen to occupy your attention, that's all, and he's just temporary. Big Brother is many people...many rich people at the top of the corporate and banking chain...and you don't get to vote them either in or out of office. They are in power for life. You get to vote for the ephemeral front men they market to you in your bogus elections, and it doesn't change much of anything, but it sure works great to keep you divided against each other and distracted, doesn't it?

If they can keep you all fighting with each other over partisan viewpoints, then they have you exactly where they want you: under control.