{"id":8012,"date":"2026-06-15T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:01:08","slug":"the-emperor-has-no-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8012","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most people are familiar with the children&#8217;s story of a pious emperor who participated in a pompous parade through town.<br>Everyone went along with praising the emperor in everything he did, even the parade.<br>Although something was embarrassingly wrong, no one dared to say anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally a young child yelled out, &#8220;The emperor has no clothes.&#8221;<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>And so, this story comes to mind as I watch the pompous fanfare of negotiating deals with Iran.<br>Something is missing, just as serious as the emperor having no clothes, yet marching on and on like we&#8217;re getting it all together.<br>Even a child, a political novice, knows that you can&#8217;t negotiate a deal with muslim terrorists, most especially shiite islamist religious leaders running the country of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only &#8216;negotiating&#8217; tool that Iran&#8217;s leaders respond to is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">force<\/span>.<br>We know this because it has already worked with Iran.<br>And it is the only thing that will ever work with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The only thing the remaining muslim leaders in Iran will honor is personal, individual, DEADLY FORCE !<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until President Trump takes decisive action with that fact, soon, he is more like the emperor, marching on with self-acclaimed fanfare&#8212;with no clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are familiar with the children&#8217;s story of a pious emperor who participated in a pompous parade through town.Everyone went along with praising the emperor in everything he did, even the parade.Although something was embarrassingly wrong, no one dared to say anything. Finally a young child yelled out, &#8220;The emperor has no clothes.&#8221;&#8211; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}