I've been busy as a bastard, hense the brutal blogging. My last two days of self-employment have been pretty good to me though. I could go back to it. Today was just plain euphoric. Had an amazing breakfast, got a pile of work done, and had a wicked evening (Trivia Night is back on at the Toad on Tuesdays). Oh, and I smoked dope on the steps of the Legislative building.... haha fuckers.

So to bring my thinking back to the real world, I think I'd like to talk about the new pending world war. This "culture war" has crossed the line, and doom is all that any of us have for a future.

For the last two weeks, Iran has been playing posture games. They 'revealed' the existence of a pretty wicked sonar-evading new torpedo. Also, they test fired a recently aquired radar evading missile.

The claims Iran makes are large, very large. Over at Big Lizards they make a pretty good case for the Irinian weapons buildup... being a big joke.

Relatively speaking, even if Iran's claims were true, they've got shit. And they realize it's not about the weapons either. If Iran gets attacked in the US-lead "War on Terror", it will incite a world war. And Iran's leaders knows it.

So, we're left in a world where the US has plans to attack Iran, and Iran is posturing for war.

Theres also strategic reasons to attack Iran. If you look at a local map you see that Iran is the only thing seperating two very critical battle areas. Its the only country between Iraq and Afghanistan, where they've already got a fuckload of troops.

Combinging the two into one large war theatre wouldn't be hard. It would make things simpler. If there is, in fact, a "culture war" on our hands - Pakistan won't be far behind, and the Saudi Arabian Royalty will be forced into a postion where they have to choose between the cash, and the people. Then there's Syria, and Yemen to deal with.

Anyway, back to the wonderful land of Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is one of my favorite politicians in the world right now, is being very open about Iran's ambitions. So open, that they might be making shit up. All this talk about nuclear this-and-that does prove one thing, that Iran is up to something.

The whole deal does stink of 2003 however. I've been wondering if there was just some horrible typo in all of Bush's intel reports back then. Maybe the 'q' was supposed to be an 'n'. Or maybe I'm just suffering from a twisted case of deja vu.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does understand that he's holding a pretty good hand right now. If Iran were attacked, the middle east would light up like a guy named Omar with a bomb strapped to his chest candle.

Another interesting aspect of the Iran conflict, is what kind of pretense the US will use to attack. In Iraq (with a 'q'), the initial reason was weapons of mass destruction, but quickly switched to 'freedom and democracy'. Iran has made is pretty clear that they want The Bomb. But at the same time, they're the most democratic country in the Middle East.

Iran has good cause to want The Bomb too. Self-defense. Israel has The Bomb, has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. They've also made it pretty fucking clear that those Nukes are pointed straight at Iran. You can't blame Ahmadinejad for trying to look after Iranians.

My personal belief, is that Iran should have The Bomb. It gives them security, which in turn will make them act more rationally. It could also be a proving ground for Middle Eastern content. It's not far off from dealing with a child. You basically have to give them responsibility slowly, and pray to god, allah, buddah, The Sun, or whoever/whatever, that the kid doesn't go fuck everything over. Pardon my nihilism.

At some point, "solving the problem" becomes a bigger task than dealing with the problem itself. I say fuck it, lets see what they do with it. Anything, whatever it takes, to stop the poor bastards from blowing themselves up in the streets.

My chair just broke. I should say, Foy's 24-chair just broke. It was only slight however, so we'll survive.

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