Interesting...but essentially it just said if you see iran pointing a nuke at you then you cant have others return fire on your behalf until it has hit our land. "oh no its their right to point nukes anywhere they want" ... "oh wait its been fired...well they have every right to fire a nuke into the air aslong as it dosent hit our land"... It would be interesting to just see what would happen if everyone assumed everyone else had good intentions and would respect others liberty. I feel that there IS more good than evil in this world but if all the good people just watched the Evil ones do evil because they dont want to take away their liberties then the evil would wipe out the good.
"Evil prevails when good men do nothing"
i don't think that was the intent of the video.
here's the best analogy I can think of at the moment:
Iran is one guy walking on the street and we are another guy walking the other way on the same street. We are very paranoid of this other guy as we see him approaching from the opposite direction. We have very vague and unclear "reason" to suspect that this other guy may possibly have evil intentions as he approaches. Maybe his hands are in his pockets and his eyes are shifty and nervous. A preemptive strike on Iran would be like our character on the street pulling out a shotgun from under our trench coat and blowing the guys head off simply because his shifty eyes made us nervous. "he
could have had a gun or knife in his pocket" our character says, attempting to justify his own aggression.
I know the world can't be overly simplified this way but it is at least a bit interesting to break it down into these simple terms and view it as a one -on-one human interaction.now let's take the analogy one step further. let's say this other man
did in fact have a gun in his pocket. Let's say that this man has been beaten and mugged over and over again throughout his life and he carries a handgun to defend himself with. Does his possession of a weapon (which we still aren't aware of) automatically mean that he's going to pull it out and shoot us? Now, what are the odds that he will pull his gun if our character stops him on the street. Our character begins showing classic traits of a mugger. In his own mind, our guy doesn't view himself as evil because he thinks he's keeping the street safe from this suspicious man, but how would a third-party view this confrontation? Our character has the self-righteous attitude that he is the policeman of this street when in fact he has no more authority to police this street than anyone else does. Blinded by his own self-righteousness, he doesn't see himself as the bully that he really is. He sees himself as a hero, and now he's waiting for the next shifty-eyed pedestrian to pass by so he can fill that guy's face with buckshot too.
bottom line: all cute little stories and analogies aside, Iran is a despicable country, I don't deny that. (that goes for most of those sand-boxes over there too, not just Iran) Their abuses of women and basic human rights is nauseating. But as far as our own national security is concerned, they would have no reason to launch any kind of attack on us if we'd just leave them the fuck alone.
and getting past all this Iran stuff... I interpreted the video differently all together. I think it was aimed at introducing these ideas on an individual level, not a national level. I'll admit, the video is a bit "utopian". It's a pipe-dream for sure, but why not strive for a positive freedom-oriented attitude? The whole world will never wake up to these truths, but America is
supposed to set the example, aren't we?
