02.16.06
And Iran… Iran so far away?
A recent Gallup poll finds “the American public worried about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and viewing the country as a threat to the United States”. How about that?
Let’s see: we (re-) elect a guy who relishes calling himself a “War President” — a “Skull and Bones” pledge with the intelligence and oratory power of Elmer Fudd, and who is also an AWOL would-be soldier with no military sense, and who (acts of folly following a state of foolishness) takes us to war with Iraq on demonstrably false premises and then botches the job, and who is also inextricably tied up in the oil business and any amount of other shady business, and who also sides with the religious right as easily as he sides with cartels and special interests groups (even when the sides clash), and who also has (at best) the moral compass of Dogville’s Tom Edison Jr. though far less small town charm. Ahem.
Do you think the American public should be worried? I mean, Dubya is spending more time, money and effort on shoring up the booty “American interests” in the Middle-East than on, say, helping fix the mess that Katrina, FEMA and various others made. And Iran is of course in the Middle East — right next door to Iraq, as you may know (it depends on how much you are a product of the American system of education), and relatively close to both Syria and Saudi Arabia, models of stability and great allies both (that being a sarcastic statement). But with all that paper money being piled on the oily fire, I mean to say, surely there’s no reason to worry about what Iran is up to. It’s not like we’re bothering them, right? Yeah, so nobody says Persians are any more sensible than Arabs when it comes to the West’s interests. We’re all stiil members of the good-ol’-boy Abrahamic club, aren’t we? That should count for something, for G-d’s sake. Oh… right; never mind.
But, doubtless, Russia and/or India will find a way to sort things out before things get utterly apocalyptic and, even if they don’t, Our Fearless Leaderâ„¢, our “War President”, is sure to come up with… well, some excuse for why we have to attack them and hasten the “Second Coming”. It will all be over relatively quickly… if looked at on a geological timescale. And, you know, maybe Dubya Dubya Two will really be the war to end all wars.
verywide.net » And Iran… Iran so far away? (ADDENDUM) said,
April 9, 2006 at 1:16 pm
[...] Back in mid-February I posted about a Gallup poll finding that “the American public [is] worried about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and [views] the country as a threat to the United States”. I snarked about the issue of a potential war with Iran, pretty much indicating my belief that the situation is distressing, to say the least. [...]