Iraninejad

Atomic bomb deployed by the United States
over Nagasaki

Remember the "Bomb bomb Iran" song?

There’s an abundance of confusion when it comes to word sanctions. Most people just let the word pass by as if it was nothing to be perturbed about. As if one was just saying the word irreguardless. People can’t see the criminality in it. So, when the United States mindlessly throws it [sanctions] out there when discussing countries such as: Iran, Syria, North Korea, most people don’t care. I don’t either to be honest; generally, those countries self-impose their own sanctions via moronic domestic policies. But, back to the U.S.--sanctions are actually an act of war and if you think it is not, then tell me what it is. Sanctions usually aim to put an economic stranglehold on a country, but it is not limited to that. Sanctions can famine other sectors as well. More recently, Iran was hit by a flurry of sanctions from the western world. Although it is not a simple matter, I will treat it as such. Imagine the United States government was the mafia. The mafia will go to local store owners (in this case, Europe) and tell them that if they don’t do business how we tell them to, we’ll break their legs with baseball bats and pull out their nails with tweezers. This is not literal--what I mean is that the U.S. tells Europe (mainly European businesses) to not have any economic involvement with Iran in order to continue business with the United States. Essentially, this is called a bribe and it is no laughing matter. Sanctions do not really effect the leaders or the important players in Iran. The impact is greatly felt by the people. Morally, I would not be able to implement sanctions onto any country--I would try diplomacy, first. However, sanctions are flooding in whether I like it or not and this is all over nuclear endeavors. My thought about Iran’s ambition is that possessing nuclear weapons really makes you a big boy. Although, let’s be honest, who would be so demonic, so unprincipled, so shameless to actually use a nuclear weapon (Oh wait, I just remembered). There is one pattern I see throughout the world; countries that have nuclear weapons don’t get sanctioned. This leaves us with only one advice for Iran. I think you know it. 

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Republican Primary 2012

Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich

Why you should care about Newt Gingrich’s personal life...

Newt Gingrich’s supporters are like a high school prep rally. They mindlessly cheer for anything that that man (who quietly looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy) spits out.  Even when he called the Palestinian people an “invented people” the audience hooted and hollered at the clever quip not realizing that the most celebrated invented people in history are Americans. It is expected that with political campaigns comes a bevy of erroneous suggestions by the candidates. The problem is when a candidate, such as Ron Paul, expresses a pacifist viewpoint, you don’t have to cheer but if you boo, then you probably have never seen war or a war-stricken country. Honestly, I don’t know what people cheer or boo for anymore; it seems rather random most of the time. However, certain keywords and poses invariably gets an applause. The one that baffled me the most was when Newt Gingrich firmly declared that he would not address his personal life during a recent debate. The crowd erupted as if Mr. Gingrich had murdered Hitler in front of their eyes. It was such a standing ovation that I thought I was watching a speech by ousted leader Muammar Ghadaffi. But I wasn’t. I was watching Newt Gingrich and his supporters claim that personal information was not important when it came to the issues. If you support this idea then you must entertain the idea that the issues of gay marriages and abortions are not important as well since it is an individual/personal issue. And for the pious citizens, I thought a marriage was suppose to be between ONE man and ONE woman, not ONE man and THREE women. I know, that was distasteful. Let’s be honest with each other, Republicans: nowadays it seems that you cheer a political candidate as if they represented school colors like the Alabama crimson tide or Michigan blue. If President Obama had the same marriage history as Gingrich he’d be an obamanation (abomination). The fact is that most people vote to improve something in their life. The thought is that the new government implements policies (whether capitalistic or social) that gives you a little extra so that you can buy your spouse a fancy dinner or go on a road trip with friends. We forgot how important our politicians and government are. We neglect that our vote to elect politicians can affect thousands of people domestic and aboard. If we elect a warmonger like Bush Senior, hundreds of thousands of people are affected. Politics, unbelievably, is not a sport. We must remove this attitude and stick to our principles. It’s not “my team against your team” when lives are at stake. Vote, but vote for what you believe in. And, if you haven’t studied the philosophy of Republicanism, Democracy, Liberalism, Conservatism, Libertarianism, etc, then you probably should not vote. 

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