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President Obama should bomb Iran with laughing gas
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As thousands of riot police fill the streets of Tehran, the world watches. MSNBC reports a backstage struggle among Iran’s clerics. Will the theocracy crumble? Is this another revolution? According to CNN’s commentator Fareed Zakaria, the regime may have more life in it, but it’s only a matter of time. He says that eventually and inevitably the Iranian patriarchal theocracy will collapse. .jpg)
Let’s hope he is right.
It's common knowledge that stressful situations increase the likelihood of violent activity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urge stress reduction strategies as a means of disarming violent behavior. And researchers at the Mayo Clinic make the case that a good belly laugh can even help build up the immune system.
The violence and bloodshed in Iran is one more reminder that especially when people are collectively overcome with stress, it is time to think outside the box. Mark Twain once said "the human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter." Twain obviously knew what many world leaders miss, make your enemy laugh and they become totally defenseless.
Better yet, what if President Obama were to call upon world leaders to create a new position in their governments—call it the Secretary of Comedy.
The function of this high level post would be to make people laugh in every country and around the world. These Secretaries of Comedy would engage in a global conspiracy to tell funny stories, send funny tweets and stay on message 24/7--don’t worry, be happy--LOL when you get up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. These so called Secretaries of Comedy would know that a laughing world is never defeated by its tears.
No doubt every Secretary of Comedy would enlist the support of children to this cause. When it comes to laughter as an ingredient in the recipe for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness--children know best how to stir the pot.
True confession. Whenever I’m around little children I always try to make them laugh. When they laugh, especially when they belly laugh, I can’t help but join in. Laughter is the best medicine because it’s more contagious than the common cold. I wish I had the power to fill all of the bombers in the world with laughing gas.
Imagine endless fleets of bombers flying over North Korea, Pakistan, Israel--and now, Iran—I would order them to drop cluster bombs made not of munitions but nitrous oxide. What the whole world needs is to fall over ourselves and each other in laughter. We need a collective and cathartic global belly laugh.
Several months back, Chicago Tribune reporter Margaret Ramirez wrote an article about a show called “The Hijabi Monologues”. Written by Sahar Ullah, it is not about the hijab, or head covering that many Muslim women wear. It tells the stories of women who wear them. The stories cover the spectrum from poignant to side splitting. There are very serious and very funny moments. Ramirez writes, “Many of the monologues come from Ullah's personal life, including a hysterical story about a Muslim girl attending a University of Florida football game searching for a place to pray”.
Tell me a story. Make me laugh at myself so that we can laugh together. Open my heart.
No kidding. I wish someone had the technological know-how to fill the world with laughing gas.
Victor Borge once said, "laughter is the closest distance between two people."
Whoever we are, whererever we live--let us each one, do our own part.
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