Hold On To Your Horses, Trouble's Brewing Ahead

Ever heard of the theory of "if-we-talk-about-it-often-enough, it-will-happen"?

Well, it's happening again, and 'it' is trouble in the Middle East. The world powers-that-be believe Iran is going to make nuclear weapons from the uranium reactors it has. Iran says it is not going to do that. The US and Israelis went ahead with military exercises in the Mediterranean which some say was a simulation of an attack on an Iranian nuclear power plant. This week, Iran tested Shahab-3 missles which have the capability to strike targets as far away as India and Greece, and threatened to close off the Straits of Hormuz if attacked. All this gesturing and trash talk. Goodness.

Still the way everyone is talking about this 'crisis' is "We are trying to prevent a WAR!" with dramatic emphasis of the final word, as opposed to "We are trying to prevent a war" said calmly, politely and seriously. Someone official will soon come around to say that a war with Iran is an extension of the "war on terror" and hence, necessary. Or have they already? Goodness gracious.

Nobody wants a war, especially this one. It will be bloody disastrous and potentially be a precursor for WW3. Granted that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has openly called for the extermination of Israel and Israel has been found lying about its own nuclear capability (and they have a lot of big, powerful bombs hidden in the desert), a war between these two foes will only serve to make things worse between Muslims and the West. There could potentially spawn trouble across iraq, Iran and Afghanistan on a scale quite unimaginable. The price of oil will skyrocket into the $200s, the world economy will falter, more families will lose sons and daughters on foreign soil, extermists everywhere will take action, everyone else will be on edge and upset, the UN will prove useless once more, your job could be on the line and the world will be farked.

That's the bad news for this week. Stay tuned next week when we discuss how Swedish porn could help Singaporeans make more babies.