The "trick" behind the rhetoric about WMD

[Angela Shelley]

Here´s the trick, using a parent/child example.


Parent: I don´t want you to eat a piece of the cake which Grandmother made.

Child: Why not, you´re eating the cake?

Parent: Because I´m the parent, I make the rules.

Child: OK, then I´ll eat something else.

Parent: Be honest, and report to me when you eat something.


Later that day.

Parent: I´ll bet you´ve been eating the cake.

Child: No, I haven´t.

Parent: I know that you would like to, so go to your room, there will be no dinner for you.



Next day.

Parent: You are such an EVIL child, because I´m sure you are thinking of a way to get a piece of cake.

[RC]

1. Yes, this quite clearly fits the Iran situation.

[Berry Cool]

2. Except the conclusion is missing.

Parent goes to other parent and says, first: Our child is evil because it is seeking ways to get Grandmother's cake.

Later, parent goes to other parent and says: You should be afraid of our child because it is seeking ways to get Grandmother's cake. You had better let me keep you safe and decide what to do. No one else can handle this but me.

Even later, parent goes to other parent and says: We may have to punish our child because it is seeking ways to get Grandmother's cake. In fact, if that child gets the cake, it may kill one of our other children. In fact, we may have to kill our child so it doesn't kill the others. There may be no other alternative.

This theme is repeated several times.

Then, strangely, parent begins to say to other parent: We may have to kill our child because it may be seeking ways to get eggs, flour, sugar and milk, which could conceivably be used to make cake, and when it does so it might kill another of our children.

Other parent eventually learns the child has not been seeking ways to get cake for a long time, and what's worse, the first parent has known that for a while.

[Angela Shelley]

3. When does the first parent "wake up" and take action?

When and how does he say "NO" to manipulation?

[kentuck]

4. And then the parent blows the hell out of the kid....

with a nuclear bomb.

[Angela Shelley]

5. Smart kids have friends all over the place

who have had enough of "mental madness" and "attempted manipulation".

It´s not the kid who will suffer, because he sees through it all.

It´s the co-dependent "other parent" which has become so weak that he can´t get out.