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July 4, 2026

You Say America's Been Humiliated?

Don’t know what to tell you, I just saw the news:

America lost when Iran turned the screws,

Yes, lost! And worse, it’s brought humiliation,

Brought shame and anger and sundry tarnation.

Some pundits say it’s the worst defeat yet:

Heads hung, heads rolled, our July Fourth upset.

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Well, I run a shop, and I’m busy as hell,

But I asked around wide, got out of my shell.

Humiliation? Sorry, none I could see,

Just people mad ‘bout the price of gasolee’,

And now things seem to be getting back to norm’:

Back to the calm we had before the big storm.

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Much ado ‘bout nothin’, is my own perception:

Backstabbing and trash-talk of Beltway conception,

And then there’s the media that paints it all black,

When really it’s a hiccup, a minor setback.

«Humiliation» means a people’s embarrassed,

Caught with their pants down and their backside barest.

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Here’s four great examples of just what I mean,

When events did the national honor demean.

Like when Reagan in front of the Pope fell asleep,

Or when Janet Jackson allowed a Super Bowl peep,

Or when in basketball the Russkies took gold,

Or when La La Land won an Oscar untold.

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But this six-week spat, with scarcely a guy killed?

You’re saying the national honor got grilled?

Iran closed the Strait, sure, as desperate guys do,

‘Cause they can’t fight clean or properly sue,

Yet it’s a small quill in the national plume,

Which shames all less than the Reflecting Pool bloom.

A brilliant prison escape, or really an FBI espionage operation?

A presidential election is gamed by one person who, despite exposure and national humiliation, goes on to become a national icon.

A businessman reunites by chance with a girl he gave advice to on a short plane ride 7 years earlier. She took his advice: now she's the star of a Broadway dance show.

A massive banana-plantations strike in Ecuador brings out the best and worst, the comic and the tragic, in American scheming.

My last novel. A false-flag operation in New Jersey may turn into war.