If there was ever any lingering doubt that the bureaucrats deep inside the Trump Administration had long since lost their minds – which presupposes that they once had them in the first place – the arrest of Sino-telecom giant Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou seals it for a certainty. There is nobody home in the White House. They’re all absolutely out of their gourds.

I can continue with superlatives all day in this case, but first down to business. Remember when Beijing arrested 18 Crown Resorts executives and sentenced one of them to 10 months in prison? Their horrible crime was advertising Crown’s gaming services. Well, the Chinese are getting a taste of their own medicine (let me be clear that this is not a good thing) as the United States had put out some kind of Interpol warrant or something against Meng, a Chinese national, travelling through Canada at the time, for the crime of doing business with Iran. Say what now? The only thing almost as crazy that I’ve seen is the Dolphins’ game-ending 69-yard desperation double lateral touchdown play against the Patriots with 7 seconds left, and even that is not as crazy as this.

I mean, what in the world is going on here? Most often it is very difficult for the average American to understand the perspective of non Americans when they say that the US bullies other countries and sticks its nose, or its fist rather, unfairly into the business of others, but in this case it’ll be hard for even the most diehard of the cult of American Exceptionalism to deny that this is really beyond the pale. What does a Chinese executive, travelling through Canada, allegedly doing business with Iran, have anything to do with the United States? And to make matters so much worse, the US Justice Department isn’t seeking some kind of 10-month slap on the wrist for Meng. They’re pushing for 30 years in prison! At 46 years old, that’s basically a life sentence for her.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but one thing she never had to teach me, thank goodness, is that when someone graciously lends you $1,165,000,000,000, you probably shouldn’t resort to kidnapping. I was raised very well, thank you very much.