Resign Yourself

This 2011 photo shows Iran's heavy water nuclear facility near the city of Arak, one of several sites that would be impacted by a landmark deal with world. (Photo: Hamid Foroutan, AP)

Resign Yourself

A word to those cowering in nervous 
suspense: no need. Rest easy, there are 
no existential threats such as
consumed the world when two
ideologies, two nations faced each other 
with challenging enmity, one with the 
mantle of individual rights, the other 
with the assurance of collective harmony, 
each dedicated to the creation of a
superior global social construct having 
slain the Fascist beast. Wars, from the 
heat of battle to the cool calculation of a
nuclear button, have been vanquished. 
No longer do elite demagogues, fanatical 
charlatans, twisted religious figures and
absolute monarchs without conscience 
dominate and threaten. And consider, 
heads of state who still loathe one another
express commitment to the discourse 
of reason and the need for vigilance 
in global security. It is why nations involved 
in low-level carnage and human rights 
violations religiously send delegates 
to vital international events on diminishing 
the number of weapons of mass destruction
in their arsenals, discussing such matters 
as co-signatories invested in the 
Proliferation Security Initiative. So why 
worry? Should human frailty fail to restrain
the occasional lapse, we will never
know the outcome. Ignorance = bliss.