Tuesday October 21, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

Did anyone catch the piece on Iran's massive ostrich sandwich?
Iran tried to break the Guinness World Book record by concocting a 4900 foot long ostrich submarine sandwich.
That is a very impressive feat.

But before the representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records could step forward to measure the sandwich, the people lunged ahead and went grabbing for the prize winning sub.
So although Iran probably did break the record - officially they did not.
Now I am waiting for the Iranians to blame Israeli or the United States for their failure.

There is a metaphor here.
This ostrich sub debacle is a perfect example of Iran's inability to seize the proper moment.
Iran successfully turned a potentially great PR event into an example of gross ineptitude.

All it took was a matter of seconds, all that was needed was a few minutes more.

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