"Battle Royal"

I used to watch wrestling a lot when I was a kid. Wrestling was fun; the Iron Sheik, Sgt. Slaughter, Rick Flair, and, of course, Hulk Hogan filled arenas across America and television screens every Saturday morning and a couple of nights a week. I go way back when it comes to wrestling. I remember Killer Kawalski and Haystacks Calhoun back from the old "black and white" days. Wrestling has always consisted of good guys and bad guys; in the trade they are called "baby faces and heels". We now have pay per view events that generate millions of dollars of revenue from loyal fans across the world. Each event needs some special hook to entice its audience. There is almost always a championship match that has been brewing on the television shows for months, plus other rivalries that fans have been involved with regularly. One big pay per view was the "Royal Rumble". This was a "battle royal", where a dozen or so wrestlers get into the ring simultaneously, throwing opponents over the top rope to attain victory. Sometimes during these matches, wrestlers partner up to defeat other wrestlers who are the most threatening to their victory. A bond of trust is made in the ring, sometimes between a "baby face" and a "heel". If it comes to the end and this unlikely duo is left as the last men standing, you can depend on the "heel" doing something devious. He may use the dreaded "foreign object", when the referee's head is turned from the action. The poor "baby face" is caught off guard; he trusted the "heel", and the "heel' turned on him!

The United States recently signed on to the START treaty, along with Russia. Several months ago, I watched as America dropped its guard in Eastern Europe, drastically reducing our nuclear defense shield and leaving Eastern Europe vulnerable along with parts of the Middle-East. America is now committed to START; America is now weaker than it was two years ago; America is the "baby face" who has been caught off guard by the "heel". Last week, Russia made an announcement that should give the entire world cause to be concerned. Russia has developed an ICBM capable of penetrating all anti-missile defense systems now in existence! It is a system that will carry "multiple war heads" and have full nuclear capabilities. This ability of multiple targets is very disturbing; the idea that it is indefensible is flat out scary. The potential targets can be a great distance from each other. Oddly, this system doesn't violate the precepts of the START treaty. WOW; did we get taken? We are now facing a Middle-East that is moments from explosion. We are seeing all of the Israel haters beginning to line up, and we are seeing America in a weakened defense posture. The START treaty has caused us to be in a "perfect storm". It looks like Mr. Obama has become a victim of the "dreaded foreign object", and the referee isn't watching the action. It looks like the "baby face" never should have trusted the "heel"!