Madness: The New World Order bewilders me. The United States has blockaded Cuba, choking it, but no one cares. Cuba is meaningless. Iran blockades the Strait of Hormuz, essential to the global flow of petroleum, and all are infuriated by its reckless, monstrous Revolutionary Guard. But please, pray tell, what other leverage did Iran have? It has been preemptively attacked twice in a year by Israel and the United States. Its biggest failure has been its unwillingness to capitulate. It is now standing up for itself in the only way the West understands, turning the sanctions it has long labored under on their end. I understand that much of the world loathes Iran’s Islamic regime. But I do not understand, and in fact dislike, double standards, and Iran — which has not directly aggressed on anyone — is the victim of just such a double standard, one imposed not by the bad guy but by the good. Pure madness.