Iran


Iran sucks. There I said it. It sucks. It sucks they're building nuclear power plants. It sucks that it has a huge pool of oil under it. It sucks that its government is repressive. And you know what else sucks? It sucks that WE are destabilizing it, planning military force if necessary. This whole thing sucks. It's eerily similar to LAST summer, when Iraq was planned. I told friends last summer. They were like "It's not going to happen." And of course, I was right and they weren't, but at that point, the war was on and saying anything bad about the war branded one anti-American, unpatriotic, harmful to the troops (!??) and other assorted beliggerant jingoistic rhetoric.

Just watch. In a few weeks someone will leak war plans. The pundits will drool and wet their pants. Of course, the lapdog media will overlook it and focus on some inane scandal (SCOTT PETERSON!!! LOOK THERE!!! SHARKS!!! LACI!!! CHANDRA!!! DISTRACT DISTRACT DISTRACT!!!). August will be hot and the pundits will talk about it. In September, timed of course for the 9/11 anniversary, someone will speak to the UN. Then the nasty cross-Atlantic sniping will start. We will demand a resolution. We'll get one. Iran won't comply. And then, early next year, we'll be liberating Iran with a "Coalition of the Willing" AKA a Coalition of other Authoritarian states. Of course, any debate, any questioning, and you'll automatically be branded unpatriotic. You'll get beat up. Your life will be threatened. Meanwhile, millions of Africans will continue to die. Child soldiers will run through Congolese streets, or Sudanese streets, or the streets of more than a handful of African countries. Myanmar will continue to oppress. Indonesia will continue running rampant through Aceh. Uzbekistan will continue boiling its dissidents. India and Pakistan will continue fighting. Afghanistan will continue to remain a shattered forgotten mess. Iraq will continue to simmer. Israelis and Palestinians will continue to kill each other. North Korea will continue targeting the West Coast, Japan, and South Korea. The Bush Administration of course will continue to ignore that threat. Russia will continue fighting the Chechnyans. Death will pervade our blue little globe.

And I say, THAT SUCKS!