A burning man

Much to my surprise I just watched an interview with the Monarch of Jordan, Abdullah II. bin Hussein. The King spoke a rather pleasant outside version of Oxford, UK English. In his answers you could feel that old, often misunderstood, time and again unsuccessfully copied but never mastered art of british imperial understatement. Don´t try and tell me that you really understand understatement; even if you are a Brit, you may own the bloody thing, but that don´t mean you understand it, as my friends from the old home would say. Nobody understands it.
Never mind, all of this is completely besides the point. This man, carefully choosing his words, watchful eyes and a face that would put even a veteran poker player to the test, yet with an Aura of ..... damn it! I have to admit that I, for once, can´t find the proper words to describe this ruler of
the constitutional monarchy of Jordan, the home of the ancient city of Petra, the greek word for stone. Petra is the famous city that was carved into a canyon, a city of stone indeed. If you never heard of it, you should seriously google it. It´s amazing.
Rambling, again. Ok, with an air of benign authority the King reminded me - and anybody else who happened to be watching, that the so called Arab Spring started with a young man in Tunesia setting himself on fire because of the desperate economic situation of his country. The King carefully proceeded to say that the original spark which started the civil unrest in the Arab World was nothing that was limited to this region, but a world wide crisis of finances gone awry.
He added that really there was no Arab spring, a phrase coined by the western media. Let´s face it, we were all caught by surprise when Arab countries went into chaos and religious rebellion without us bombing them first, nice and proper.
No, the king said that it would take 10 to 15 years for this process to complete, and that it would be different for each and everyone of these countries, but that it all started not because of a sudden hunger for liberal values and western style democracy, but because of our so called world wide financial crisis.

To quote Roger Waters "Oh Maggie - Maggie, what did we do?"

Yes, friends, the edges are getting rather frenzy. Sela.

We still pretend like this is happening to someone else, when we publicly discuss what to do about Syria, as if we ever had or now have any control over this civil war. All we do know is that the opposing  sides stem from two different sects of the islam. Hallebaba, what a surprise, Abrahams best friend is once more involved. But the point is, we do not have any power or influence over these wars, and there are more civil wars on the verge of breaking out all over the world, like in Greece, in Portugal or in Spain for example.
And I´m just naming the ones that have already seen massive civil unrest over the past few months, I don´t even want to think about the potential of unrest in places like Russia, Lithuania or the US. Or bloody Germany, for that matter.
No.
Wait.

Hmmmm.
So, bear with me here. What if, theoretically, the Nazis came back to power in Germany and casually provoked England, ridiculed America, threatened Poland and nuked France?
I think it´s safe to say that everybody would be really upset about most of this and kinda glad that it was just France getting nuked. And then we would finally have a common enemy again, and a familiar one, too, one that we can all agree upon, DER DEUTSCHER NAZISCHWEINHUND!
I could spend the entire war tucked away in my panic room, reading Zettel´s Traum and drinking my neighbour´s Brandy. I might even publish an Anne Frank style diary later on, only I wouldn´t end up dead in a Vernichtungslager, but with a bad headache and a rather annoyed neighbour.
Sounds like a plan.

Tune in next week when we will use a fascists uprising to better the world.

...does it get any better...?