Defending the Little Guy

Normally, I would watch news like this, and sympathise with the little guy.  In this case, Iran and Iranians are being forced out of Nuclear aspirations by the rest of the world - while we all use oil like it's going out of fashion.  Although oil has ceased to be fashionable, and keeps getting more difficult to come by (expense is a byword for ease of procurement, in this sense) the Iranians are being told to keep using oil, coal and gas to generate their power.

Let's say, as a bi-product of producing cleaner energy, Iran got hold of some nuclear weapons.  Let's just pretend that's what would happen, for a moment.  Iran loses all sense and bombs america.

What will happen?  Well, now the americans have developed missiles that can travel at mach 5 (this is an old article, but the successful tests have been replicated recently), it won't be long before they wedge a nuke onto it. So the leaders in Iran blow up Manhattan, then the americans destroy the entire middle east.

Maybe that scenario is somewhat drastic.  Let's run the simulation again.

Iranians blow up New York, americans annihilate the middle east.

No, you see, no matter how you play it out, there isn't going to be a microbe alive in Tehran, let alone a person.

Russia and america have all the nukes, so why can't the rest of the world?

Before you start saying something along the lines of, 'oh but Iran is a bad place and they're dictators and whatnot,' let's look around the world.  If you want to punish criminals and criminal behaviour, why don't we place embargoes on every single politician in England, and then work our way to america.  Lock up everyone who makes more than a few millions dollars a year, because there isn't a chance they didn't obtain their wealth legally - then make your way to Europe, where those at the helm of the union are lining their pockets illegally.

When you've enacted that period of cleaning, go find Sepp Blatter.  Put that crook in prison.  Someone, please, do that soon.

Then put Formula one in the hands of someone who doesn't suffer psychotic breaks whenever anyone talks about holding an american F1 round.

Then, when we've cleaned out our own rubbish, let's 'fix,' Africa.  There's a whole continent of dictators and despots hanging around there.

After that, the whole world will be infinitely better, and we can get to work on 'helping,' the middle-east.  There's naivety, then there's claiming we romp around the world murdering civilians in other countries for their own good.

But I digress - this was originally supposed to be about video games.

So the Iranians who play this game complained about it being a game, depicting what is going to happen to them in a few months.

My point would be this: obviously america is a psychopath who has Iran in its sights, so stop playing games and bloody run away.  Especially if you think that battlefield 3 will affect public opinion, because you know, we're all dumbasses here.

I was also asked to write something for a little book the sixth year teachers are making for their kids, as they're moving on into their new schools at the end of this year.

I wrote this, with the expectation that none of them can understand English.  I wrote it in the hope that some of the more curious (and frankly, more intelligent) students will ask what it means, and the teachers or parents can then translate for them.

I hope this year was fun for everyone.  English can be difficult, but it is important.  We don’t learn English to study for tests, we learn English to speak to other people.  If you meet new people, you will learn about yourself, Japan and the world.  I hope you will grow!

I enjoyed this year, and I hope you did too!

Don’t stop smiling!

J Sam J