A nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran would be dangerous, and the United States must take steps to prevent this development. However, by nearly every quantifiable metric, Iran does not presently represent a serious threat to the United States based on its conventional arsenal.Now, I mention this in light of what Gen. Hossein Salami, a man who by virtue of his last name cannot be taken remotely seriously, told the international press after today's missile test. The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's ground forces said the following:
"We want to tell the world that those who conduct their foreign policy by using the language of threat against Iran have to know that our finger is always on the trigger and we have hundreds and even thousands of missiles ready to be fired against predetermined targets."That's right, man. Hundreds! Even thousands! I don't even know how many we have, we have so fucking many. And tanks, too! We got a shitload of tanks! And... and... Elephants! With Great White Sharks strapped to their backs that can trample/bite through anything! So you'd better back the fuck up, Great Satans, or, or you'll be sorry!
Jesus... any superpower with even a shaky sense of security in its vast military and economic supremacy would recognize this as the playground bravado it so plainly is and respond with something along the lines of, "Yeah? Fire up another and your capital reaches 10,000 degrees before the contrail is a mile long."
But we are not that superpower. We are an aggressive, jingoistic, dick-waving lot of shit-stirrers and because of that I will now curl up in the corner and try desperately not to hear Obama and McCain try to one-up each other on the campaign trail.
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