Fun with Islamic Exremists. (And American, too)

Let's see:

The President of Iran, who is one of the few leaders I think is worse than my country's, recalled it's ambassador to Denmark because of a drawing in a non-affiliated newspaper. Genius. The Pakistani goverment passed a resolution condeming the cartoons of the Islamic Prophet: I wonder if they've ever passed a unanimous resolution condemning suicide bombings? The Danish embassies were destroyed in Syria and Lebanon... because of something the Danish government didn't do and couldn't (shouldn't) control. Iran has declared an end to cooperation with the IAEA, and has promised full-scale uranium enrichment beginning.... now.

Raise your hand if you think a massive two-part process, Ethanol-for-Gas replacement concurrent with a Fuel-Cell Manhattan Project, is in order.

I'm in a bit of a personal quandary, here. On the one hand, I think President of Iran has said enough crazy shit that a preemptive strike is actually warranted. (And that's something you'll probably never hear from me again.) The problem is: so has the President of America.

In the face of catastrophic failure of Reasons for War, my President (although I never voted for him) now claims that he wants to spread democracy throughout the middle east. Since when has it become our fucking job to effect regime change in countries that have not, and likely will not, attack us?

By declaring his intentions, George Bush has opened the door for bad things to come, and reduced our national policy to Thugs of Ideology. Ugh.

Love to all.