Trouble Brewing

This is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is maybe the only person on this planet (besides Kimbo Slice) that scares the absolute sh*t out of me.

Let me explain. This guy is a hard-line Islamic leader. Not only that, he is a hard-line Islamic leader who HATES us. Not only does he HATE us, he HATES us and has nuclear weapons. Now maybe he can't get to us directly, but he can get to Israel. He's on record as saying that the State of Israel "should vanish from the pages of time." He said the holocaust was a myth. He said there are no gays in his country (probably because they are routinely killed). That is some crazy rhetoric for the 21st century.

If he was to go after Israel, we would be pulled into the conflict as we have made it no secret that we'll enter the altercation on the side of Israel. If they shoot their nukes we'll probably shoot our nukes and then there we are...nuclear war. NUCLEAR WAR. I think we talk about the concept of nuclear war without ever really trying to quantify what that would actually mean.

It's bad. Really really bad. I'm not a scientist. But I've seen the footage from the 40's of a decimated Hiroshima. Those people are still paying for that attack. I've seen camera crews at Chernobyl pull out their radiation meters and have them still spike. That is horrifying. Both of those events would be nothing compared to what would probably be let loose in the event of nuclear war.

Iran has turned into that little guy in the classroom who is sick and tired of the big kids telling him what to do. All you have to do is log on to CNN or FoxNews to see what this guy is up to. He's recruiting. He's getting support from other nations. He's solidifying his backing. Pretty soon he's going to have enough confidence to do pretty much anything.

Am I suggesting we can't handle the situation? No. I think we could eventually handle the situation. But what would the price be? I think it's too early to try and calculate, but suffice it to say that we have probably never seen its like.

I'm not a big follower of politics, and especially not geo-politics, but even I have had to start paying attention. The world is unstable right now and you can almost feel that something is brewing. It just feels strange these days. I don't know a better way to describe it.

I didn't intend to be a buzz-kill this morning, but THIS ARTICLE got in my head. And what is this blog for if not being my receptacle for brain overflow.