Commentary The exploding cigar, often seen in cartoons, is the perfect metaphor for vaccine mandates. You remember the gag. A fat cat is offered a big stogie. After a few puffs the cigar explodes spreading soot all over the hapless victim’s face. President Biden lit a national cigar with his plan to order larger employers and those that do business with the government to force their workers to receive the jab. This is the wrong approach. Unlike Australians—who mostly accepted the far more draconian controls—we are generally not a sheep-like people. We believe in doing the right thing but resent being herded. So, while the threat of job loss certainly has induced some of the “vaccine hesitant” to acquiesce, it seems to me that the mandates are in acute danger of exploding in our face. For example, the Air Force is set to lose 12,000 trained and ready personnel who …