And did that dream frighten you, Mr Bolton?

Can these guys hear themselves? Do they see themselves on TV afterward and cringe? Apparently not. The exaggerated way the powermonger boys strut their macho stuff would embarrass a Panamanian boxing champion.

For example, former US Enforcer to the United Nations John Bolton recently called for whacking Iran because Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ‘pushing out’.

We wouldn’t want one of our rival males to successfully ‘push out’, now would we?

Back in the Reagan days we used to go to Capitol Hill to cover Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger sounding regular alarms about the Soviet intentions in Afghanistan. Weinberger actually once spent a whole morning testifying to a committee there about the ‘Soviet thrusting movements’ in the Persian Gulf. We were in the back howling, but apparently no one else even got the joke.

Bolton said Ahmadinejad is ‘not receiving adequate push-back’ from the West. Does that sound like a plea for marriage counseling to anyone?

Larry Craig, don’t leave us!