It’s All About Maintaining A Cold War

The election in Iran this past Friday seemed to be a joke to most of  the world. The incumbent won but even if the opposition would have gotten all of the votes I really don’t think it would have made one bit of difference. The country isn’t governed by the elected president anyway. It is ruled by a religious dictator who hand picked all of the politicians who ran for president. The runoff last week was two people with the same brain…the guy from there who “talks with god”.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, makes all of the decisions for the way Iranians live. He wamt to be the one who makes the worlds decisions as well. Especially the decision of everything Israel.  He doesn’t want there to even be an Israel.

Now, I am not presenting any argument here about the Israel/Palestine differences or how Israel became a state back in the 40’s. Neither your view or the Ayatollah’s is what I am writing about today. It’s something I haven’t much talked about since the Berlin Wall came down and the cold war was “oficially over”. It is nuclear weapons and a new kind of cold war. One with a nation that doesn’t have nuclear weapons yet, one that does, and the United States.

It has been news and then not then is again.You know…the Koreans and Iran teaming up with the nukes Kim Jong Il has and the long range missles Ahmadinejad has and their friendly political status in the world view. And the fact that no matter who is president of Iran, Ali is the one who really is friendly with the Korean leader. A bunch of insane, power mad fools, some religious zealots and some just crazy.

On one hand this cold war is not that much different than the one the US had with the Soviet Union. The beginning hysteria has just begun in the news. Kids in Israel, South Korea and even Iran are being fed back door propaganda by the bomb drills that take me back to my elementary school days. Diving under the desk and shielding their eyes in nuke drills that wouldn’t do any good but really keeps the fear in the mind. Enough fear in the kids minds keeps their parents full of fear and the support for warring actions at the forefront. Every one has the knowledge the weapons of mass destruction are always poised for killing and no one knows when their lives will be threatened. Fear!

On the other hand (man! didn’t the president catch shit using that phrase)  this one is not like the last one.  While the countries involved are smaller than either the United States or the Soviet Union it seems their leaders are much more willing to use the nukes to serve their own purpose. The implications for a huge scale nuclear holocaust are still there though. The bigger nuclear armed countries are sitting in the background waiting to help the favored nation(s) of their choice. So the opportunity for a larger scale nuclear disaster is greater.

The leaders of the worlds nations are scrambling to try to talk with the leaders of Iran, Israel and N.Korea. Diplomacy before drastic action is always best and no matter what the plans are most of the nations involved are being asked to at least go through that protocal. If they do I will be suprised but somewhat comforted. New Mexico’s governor, Bill Richardson has been able to temporarily calm the insane N.Korean guy a few times over the years but I fear Il’s crazy has a new ally in Ahmadinejad and his insanity. Their combined psychotic desire for destruction will feed off of the others and they will attempt attack(s) on nations they abhor. Retaliation will come not only from the smaller nations but their allies who are also armed with bigger and badder nukes poised nearby.

I really am trying to be optimistic about the new cold war. I am hoping that the leaders of the world will sit down together and work things out. I really feel a nuclear free world would be a better place but as long as there are humans I doubt that could even happen…unless a bigger, more destructive weapon is as mass produced as the nukes were/are. So I am hoping we all just keep the bombs in our basement where they belong.

Lets hope this cold war turns out like the last one did.

You know…sitting around the campfires amidst rubble from a wall torn down…singing Kum Ba Ya.

Or some other happy song.

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