Eid-eh Shoma Mobarak!

I strongly believe the Iran situation is the biggest crisis in the Middle East right now. There's a good chance that Iran might be capable of producing a nuclear weapon within the next six years. Some of the left leaning blogs near the end of the Bush Administration really started to piss me off with their position on this. A lot of them assumed it was just more conservative fear mongering, and they're overblowing the situation just like they did with Iraq. But that's not the way it is at all, because unlike with Iraq, other countries are actually shitting their pants over this. Even though Saddam was a fucking douchebag and the people of Iraq are going to be better off without him in the long run, the toppling of his government has opened up a power gap in the region that Iran has now filled. Our invasion of Iraq has made Iran more powerful, which is exactly what the experts feared the most upon our invasion.

I'm fairly liberal on almost every significant issue, but I'm actually pretty conservative when it comes to this shit, as I'm sure most rational people are. I am not a pacifist. I would not be against air strikes on key Iranian targets if this situation escalated, because Ahmadinejad is not fucking around.

If there is one reason above all others why I am so fucking glad that John McCain is not the president - it is not the economy, it's not stem cell research, it's not even global warming - it is the god damned fuckfest in the Middle East.

McCain's stance on Iraq? Keep fighting until the eyeballs of kittens explode and rainbows fly out.


McCain's stance on Iran? Shut them out and don't talk to them. That'll do it! They'll hault their nuclear program and stop giving aid to Iraqi insurgents lickity-split, because they're just so gawrsh darn fwustwated that we're not giving them any attention! Problem solved! I never realized that treating the leader of the most powerful nation in the Arab world like a child would make him immediately stand down! Thanks John McCain!

I can't comprehend the way these idiots think. This hilarious attack ad says that we'll have to unconditionally accept all of Iran's demands if we speak a word to them. THEY'RE GONNA USE THEIR IZLAMO VOODOO SPELLS TO HYPNOTIZE US INTO DOING THEIR BIDDING.

This kind of damned incompetence is exactly why I'm more thrilled than anything that Barack Obama is in the White House. You know what the reaction throughout the Middle East was after Barack Obama's first interview with Dubai's Al-Arabiya? The Arab world was freakin' ecstatic! Imagine - the president of the United States treating them like actual human beings instead of like the Tusken Raiders from Star Wars! Seriously, I'm not exaggerating here, they loved it. I've watched interviews of average citizens on the streets (I can't remember the source, might have been Al-Jazeera), and they were just happy that the president was trying to reach out to them for once. That's all they've ever wanted, they just want to work with us.

Welp. That ol' rascal Obama is at it again. He just released this video tonight - "The President's Message to the Iranian People"



GOD. DAMN. HOW. HOW DOES PRESIDENT OBAMA KEEP THE AWESOME DRIPPING DOWN HIS FACE LIKE THIS. IT'S TOO MUCH. NO ONE POSSESSES THAT MUCH AWESOME. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

I love the messages he's sending with this. First and foremost, he lists the similarities of Iranians and Americans. He points out that America's going by a new game plan, that we actually give a shit about diplomacy now. He stresses that America wants to be on friendly terms with Iran, but they can't keep issuing threats and stomping their feet. He lets them know he appreciates their culture by quoting Saadi. But most importantly, he keeps reminding everyone that we all share the same humanity.

This is beautiful. Jesus. If world leaders would have acted like this during the Cold War instead of going by the international standard of waving their cocks in each other's faces, the wall probably would have fallen decades earlier. I wonder what the Republican reaction to this is going to be? My bet is the crazies will pull the Muslim card again. "WHY IS OBAMA TRYING TO BE SO FRIENDLY TO THE MUSLIMS IF HE AIN'T A MUSLIM HIMSELF. WE'RE AT WAR. THOSE TUSKEN RAIDERS STOLE MY MOISTURE VAPORATORS."

And you know what the awesome thing about this is? The Iranian people actually want this. Ahmadinejad is extremely conservative, and the Iranians are kind of getting fed up with it. The Iranian President is elected by a direct vote, and can only serve two terms. Their elections will be coming up in June, so who knows, Ahmadinejad might even be voted out! Assuming the election isn't rigged again.