There are some people who just love attention, they don’t care if it is good or bad, they just feel that any lime light they can get is good, so it appears that Iran is the Britney Spears of the Middle East.
Upset with the fact that Pakistan has taken the leading role of Apocalypse bringing Muslim nation, Iran has decided to exert its potential for being the harbinger of spinning the world into chaos.
How did they do this, they took a page out of their protector China’s play book by letting reckless military officers taunt their US counterparts in order to force an incident. This was the first and best sign of how the Bush Administration would boondackle foreign policy issues. It was the Chinese who had “routine” flybys of their military aircraft buzz our spy plane that was in international airspace, when a pilot who had a history of flying too close, rammed into the spy plane and sent both crashing.
Not only did the friendly lead painting toys Chinese government blame us for the incident, they held the US crew in detainment, while they sifted and examined the US plane. Bush pretty much let the crew hang high and dry until he was able to find China on a map, and had it explained to him the sevarity of the event, he was reading a children’s book at the time.
Now we have Iran attempting the same type of strategy with much more potential for a provoking action to be taken by our Military. It is no secret with all the loony rhetoric that comes from Tehran, their intentions for the United States, “Death to America!” kinda sums it up. So when naval vehicles, even small ones with the knowledge of what happened to the USS Coal, engage in hostile activities - they going to be seeing the bottom of the Persian Gulf right quick.
Why would this be such a global changing event? Because of the mindset that exists in the Middle East toward outsiders, everything they do is tolerable, anything others do is a slight against God. There was no condemnation of the Arabian world when Saddam let loose his biological and chemical weapons against the Kurds, mostly because everybody dislikes the distinct ethnic group. Suicide bombers by the Palestinians in Israel are hailed as glorious fighters for Islam and Arabs in general. Insurgents using Mosques as fortresses and desecrating the buildings by firing mortars, machine gun fire and building IED’s, they are to be protected, while the US military returning fire are seen as the villains in their eyes.
This is a distinct difference from the actions that took place in WWII where churches were to be left alone, unless they were being used as a hostile bases of operations, then they became legitimate military targets, because it was understood that those firing from the religious site were the ones desicrating its holiness, not those returning fire.
Muslims see such actions as confirmation of the West’s desire to Islam, which concerning all the problems that have come from the faith make such a goal appealing, what is truly desired to eradicate are those who would warp a religion and say that moral purity gives them permission to do any and all acts of depravity.
“An Attack Upon One Is An Attack Upon All” is the credo of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was this motto that our ally Turkey evoked after the attacks perpetrated by the evil men of Al Qaeda. So it happens this same creed is felt by the Muslim world, which was what Bin Laden was hoping for, that Muslims would protect their own, rather than protect the integrity of their religion. This is merely the beginning of the tales of the Iranian Nights
