Dithering

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At first I was going to call it fiddling, as in "Nero fiddled while Rome burned", but this is not exactly the same thing.  First of all, the fiddle hadn't been invented yet in Nero's time, he probably played something like a harp.  Second of all, Nero was, by most accounts, quite mad by the time Rome burned.  Okay, the analogy is starting to make sense now, but I still think a more appropriate word might be "dithering".

 Then again, maybe dithering is the appropriate response when you're not sure exactly what's going on.  Yemen claims that they did it, but nobody believes them, while Iran claims that they didn't do it, and nobody believes them either.  On the other hand, Yemen seems to be a client state of Iran so, even if they really did do it, it's still Iran's fault, I guess.  Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, which is the injured party here, is dithering as much as anybody.  I suppose, at this point, everybody thinks that dithering is preferable to bombing, which makes sense when you don't even know who you want to bomb.  On the other hand, Iran was never properly punished for that hostage thing back in1979 so they deserve to be bombed regardless. Then again, many of the Iranians probably weren't even alive in 1979, so the lesson would be lost on them.  Last I heard, all they taught their kids in school was to memorize the Koran.  No wait, I think that was Iraq, or maybe Afghanistan.  Whatever.

On a lighter note, here's something from the Different Breed of Cat department:

https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAHraFf?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare