More Old News

Yea I know this is old. But I was out of town on important business and could not get around to posting about it. I had to go hang out with a friend of mine who moved to Central Florida. This totally screwed up the weekly "pizza or sushi" night thing I used to have when she lived in Miami. I used to eat a crap load more sushi than I get to eat now.

Anyway - time for some old news! The US invaded the Iranian Consulate and took "prisoners".

This was a very stupid thing to do.

Oh Lazy! Don't you understand? Iran invaded the US Embassy and took hostages! That was wrong! And now Iran is meddling in Iraq! That is wrong too! So it was GOOD that the US went in that consulate!

Yes, I DO understand. Iran invaded a US embassy and now we invaded an Iranian consulate. Please explain how the two events are different? They took "hostages", we took "prisoners". Iran probably called our guys "prisoners" too. Think about that for a bit. And also - just because Iran invaded an embassy makes it OK for us to invade consular offices now? Because they did it almost 30 years ago, we can do it now? Well shit, what if China wants to invade the office of the Dali Lama and take "prisoners". Would that be OK? What in the Indian Embassy in Washington DC decided to invade the Pakistani Embassy in Washington DC? Would that be OK? You get my point here.

When Iran invaded the US Embassy, most of the world sided against Iran. That shit is not cool! All countries have embassies and consulates in other countries, and NOBODY wants their embassy or consulate invaded.

And how does this support the Bush statement that the US respects Iraqi law? We just pissed on Iraqi issued diplomatic visas. So we support Iraqi law when people are hung, but not when Iraqi law allows stuff we do not like? Is ANYONE not going to see through that bullshit?

The consulate in question was located in Kurdish Iraq. The least violent and most stable region of that country. And it pissed off the Kurds. GREAT IDEA! Lets piss off the only major group that supports us. Nothing bad can come from that! When Hussein was being mean to the Kurds Iran let them cross the border freely. Many survivors of gas attacks only lived because they hid in Iran! So yea, the Kurds do not exactly hate Iran. They view Iran as somewhat of a friend. And what do we do? Piss off the Kurds.

This will only serve to make it MORE DANGEROUS for US diplomats abroad. what if nation X invades nation Y and determines that diplomatic visas issued by nation Y are no longer valid and then take "prisoners" of their own? and what if some of those "prisoners" are US foreign service employees? Will that be OK?

Lastly, if Iran is "meddling" in Iraq, what is the USA doing? And what is Saudi Arabia doing? At this point, who is NOT meddling in Iraq? Everyone has their hands in the cookie jar at this point. So for one nation to say to another nation "your hand is in the jar because I can feel it with my hand" is kind of crazy.

Nothing good can come out of this.