“Iran is the Enemy”: Haven’t I seen this movie before?

Anyone remember this guy and the fear that country was able to cast upon the U.S. and our allies just a few short decades ago through their combination of diety-like leader worship and ability to hobble our economy by choking access to our primary source of oil?

Yes, Viriginia. It’s the Ayotollah. A cat only slightly more fear-worth and a sliver less armed than the current nuke-toting leader of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Remember the early 80’s six o’clock network news hours spent watching Shatner-esque TV anchor Frank Reynolds scare the shit out of us narrating footage of the daily million Muslim marches? Well, I do.

And with Iran’s present leadership openly dismissing the Holocaust as a “myth” used to justify the creation of Israel, their media holding Holocaust cartoon contests to make a point about a level of freedom of press they don’t tolerate on their own soil, and their recent organization without irony of a ‘international world summit’ around revisionist examinations of the Holocaust with workshops including examinations of whether the gas chambers were real or not, and whether the Jews made the whole thing up…yea, I’m feeling more and more like my scared ten year old self all over again, damp Underoos and all. Even if President Ahmadinejad is all talk, intentionally swinging his anti-semetic sentiment for the sole purpose of stirring up both “necessary” American reaction and reactionary anti-American allies in his region…well, that’s the sort of political saavy that would scare me even more than if he’s just plain nuts.

Holy war or oil war, it’ll boil down to the same shit storm, as its threatened to in many prequels before.

My more selfish prespective: after most likely descending from the same bloodlines and experiencing a few millenium of minimal international friction, India’s actions in the interest of maintaining relations with the U.S. have caused Iran to publicly let the world know that they got it out for the Indus Valley browns, so I got two strike against me now. Be nice if being Indian America didn’t double fuck my travel plans for the next, oh, 10 years…which is what’ll happen if we decide to directly go to war with them. Kinda wanted to to be able to leave the country before I turned 40 without getting rubber gloved by every airport security guy in the world for either being too brown, too American or not brown enough.

So, hey, George? Do me a favor? Watch a little History Channel, read a book or two. Hell, I’m sure the Gipper’s private video collection’s gotta have some footage of Ollie North’s mumblings in front of the senate a few years back. Pay a little attention to history and the present and think twice before twitching your big stick into the hornet’s nest of a nation of Muslims who have the potential to make Al Queda look as tough as Al Green? They actually have a history of making us very, very, very nervous…and maybe we don’t need to be so very hurried revisit our Reagan-era plans of the Iran-Iraq area as a launch pad for a takeover of the mideast region.

Electric car anyone?! Please?!

Thanks, Tex.