Is everybody happy with the way the US is behaving as the world's most powerful nation? No? Well, when has everybody ever been happy about anything? So let's think about what other nations might do a better job. What if Russia had won the cold war? How much do you really enjoy vodka? And do you long to drive a Zil? How about if China hadn't decided that military conquest would be too self-destructive and opted to give economic conquest a go? Wish you could dress like Chairman Mao? Or wonder when you look at the rulers in Beijing why you never see a woman? Could there be such a thing as the wonton ceiling? Now let's move ahead to the contentious moment in which we find ourselves. Who qualifies as being especially pestiferous? Who else? Iran can. And the leaders there seem to think they have all the right ideas, not only for their own repressed populace, but as the way the whole world ought to conduct itself. So let's go with that. Iran is now the most powerful nation of earth. What happens?

 

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