Someone on the news
today was talking about carrots and sticks with this proposed deal to remove
Syria’s chemical weapons. And political analysts say this is an example of
using carrots & sticks, with the stick being the threat of an American
military strike. But what’s the carrot? Analysts and our officials are saying
this deal might not work out and could be a delay tactic or some sneaky trick.
And if it is, I think it’s due to the carrot.
How do we know Bashar
al-Assad likes carrots? Why don’t we offer him a candy bar, or some New York
City pizza (or, okay, since President Obama is from Chicago, then how about a
deep-dish Chicago-style pizza)? Is this that healthy food initiative requiring
us to offer only healthy vegetable selections to our adversaries? If this thing
falls through, many people may die just because of this healthy food
initiative! Talk about the catastrophic unintended consequences of well-intentioned government policy!
Can’t we offer people yummy food if lives are at stake? Or would the
healthy food advocates claim the lives we save will be a miserable experience
full of obesity and diabetes, and they’d be better off dead anyway? Oh, the
humanity!
