3 posts tagged “iran”

How lucky are American voters?

This week another test popped up that McCain clearly fumbled and gave the Voters a clear indication of the correctness of their collective decision last election.

The unhappiness in Iran after the sham election has highlighted a serious character flaw in Republican thinking. That is that they have to tell other nations how to run their country. It’s not even a case of working towards achieving their desired ends. It must be obvious to them that any US interference is highly counterproductive so it must be a macho thing.

McCain decided to get vocal about this over the past week and has managed to show he is still locked into the “Cold War” thinking that he should have grown out of at his age. But maybe that’s what the problem is. Some of the older senators are locked into the knee jerk reaction that makes them oh so amenable to their opponents.

I hate to think of what may have happened if McCain was in power. Clearly he aspires to the “tough guy” image rather than the “smart guy” so perhaps we might have been treated to threats of military force and other worthless grandstanding which would make sod all difference  to the situation on the ground, but been helpful to the folk he seems to want to unsettle.

The common US claim is to try and keep the civilian death toll down in struggles for Democracy but this simply doesn’t work when you have had previous leaders play the “Christian” card. Bush did it a lot and appears to have enjoyed doing so even at the cost of more aggravation. That was another ego thing just like his hated comments to the car bombers in Iraq of “Do your worst.”

In Iraq we now have the coming Civil War but we can be grateful to the US for going out of their way to train up many of the different groups. At least the body bags will be filled efficiently. Happily the US troops are being moved out of the way so their presence should be less obvious and thus less inflammatory to the locals. And hopefully less US body bags will be going home.

The take home message for McCain should be “mind your own business”. It’s not your problem and if you interfere you only make it harder for those struggling towards Democracy. How much easier can it get? By doing nothing you are actually getting a better result and no US kids need to be sacrificed to promote a hated foreign government.

The only down side that I can see is he might have to resort to Viagra to prove his manliness.

The current demand by US Republicans (and a few confused Democrats) for President Obama to stir up trouble in Iran over the recent sham Election is quite amazing in it naivety.

There is no possible way any assistance can be provided by the US but a good deal of damage can be inflicted on the protesters if they mistakenly think the US can shelter them. (Think Sadam's victims and even back to the Bay of Pigs.)

It may feel good to show off and saber rattle a foreign power when you are still recovering from a loss of confidence from your supporters, but whatever happened to the common sense logic so clearly demonstrated in Sesame Street? Surely these well paid folk have at least been educated to that pre-school level? The education that appears to be lacking is "Think what happens next".

According to the son of the Shah (The US friend who was in power before the revolution) the current Theocracy has 15 to 20% of hard core popular support. I haven't seen this figure challenged but the level of debate coming out of the US seems pitched at school yard level so this figure is way beyond their consideration.

Assuming the figure is somewhat accurate and the violent nature of religious rule, there is hardly going to be an uprising organised enough to change the political landscape. However if the US starts throwing around orders the incumbents will immediate play the "Great Satan" card and start building it's supporter base. This pretty much ensures that the protesters will be gunned down as the racist fervour is built up. It also strengthens a Government that is not enjoying the levels of support it once had and gives it a fresh breath of fear based support. Something that should be quite contrary to what these polliticians should actually be aiming for.

Obviously George Bush Junior's helpful support of Bin Laden is a lesson that has yet to sink in and some of these folk are sitting around with the fairies at the bottom of the garden thinking they can call the shots anywhere they choose.

So far the President has shown a lot more common sense than some of the cold war vets still living off the Public purse and going by their wacky demands not particularly keeping up with the real world. Like the Evangelists of old these chaps seem to believe they have some God given right to interfere with governments that don't share their views, but worse than that, they set out in precisely the wrong way to achieve their dreams.

I know these folk are still coming to terms with having their influence removed from Iran all those years ago but it's time to suck it up and get over it. This old sore may well drift back towards some form they find more agreeable but not while they keep picking at it.

If you can't make it better then don't mess with it.

This week Admiral Fallon resigned after disagreeing over the attitude of the Bush Administration towards Iran.

The good Admiral thinks it's a bad idea to start bombing Iran while the likes of that US intellectual, Dubya, want to start yet another fight. Obviously Dubya thinks he is winning despite the near 5,000 US body bags that have mounted up under his inept watch.

A thought occurs to me that it's time for the US Public to start thinking of ways to curb a failed President from trying to build himself a reputation as a hard man. Their kids are going to be paying the price for a bloke desperate to find something to distract the historians.

Why should such a miserable performer be allowed to take another throw of the dice when all his others have crapped out?

Protect your kids and your country. Don't let Bush do any more damage.