Appeasement or Brinksmanship?

What tack are Hilary and Obama going to take?

The President is meeting with leaders of Russia and China, and they have to decide what to do about the potential missile crisis with N. Korea.

Short of beaming reruns of M.A.S.H. over Asia 24/7, the ace-in-the-hole (and I hope they don’t play it this early in the game) is to give up Texas.

I’m sure they’re thinking about it. The Chinese are likely already strutting around, proudly buzzing, “Freddy Mac” in the halls of their government. For Obama, relinquishing the bones of America’s cowboy heritage would trump all other moves. Remember, the east LOVES western culture. Not what it is now, but what it was.

Texas, along with its cattle, dry oil wells, the Alamo (a little irony there), and sagebrush, has a Trojan Horse that pops out of the package: GWBush, still fit and ready to ride. If only Randolph Scott were alive. "Randolph Scott?!"

The stage is set for the new President. The whole world is watching, waiting to see if there really is some substance in his approach. And if indeed, he does have an approach.

Will the ultimate Citizen of the World make more concessions? Will he be played like a fiddle as a blogger wrote, his chalk breaking on that Harvard blackboard of ideology, or is there really something lurking in his personality that will stop the aggression of other world leaders in their tracks?

What would JFK do? That president, with the angst of PT-109 burning in his memory, knew the use of brinksmanship. He matched Russia’s willingness to put all of humanity on the line in a nuclear way, by stepping up to the plate and flexing our once, and still ample, muscle.

Will there be a profile in courage written for our new leader? Not chintzy PR lies, the real deal, based on a real act of bravery, diplomatic or otherwise. The next few weeks will tell.