Beginning to Have an Opinion
For whatever reason, when I remember that this blog exists, I come back and find an upleasant reminder of that last time I logged into Bear and overshared the most emo LiveJournal-tier post you can imagine; I should be old enough by now to know better than to write and put such posts on the Internet but alas. On other sites I have a better filter but for some reason here I just write whatever negativity of the moment I'm feeling.
Luckily there isn't any negativity so what other regretable subject could I spontaneously get into.
Let's talk about war in Iran.
I have no opinion about it.
That's right, you heard me correctly.
I can't parse what is real from the propaganda and I have no idea. The only thing I can tell for sure is that no one who seems to know exactly what is going on actually knows anything; they are just consuming a large amount of propaganda from either direction. That's it.
Or perhaps I should say,
I didn't have an opinion before.
But there are a few things that cut through it and for a moment you can see through the fog of war.
The longer it goes on, the more people are going to oppose it.
If you give the US government the most charitable faith you could possibly give their position, and agree that there is something "worth fighting over" going on there, whatever that thing is becomes less "worth it" if it's not going to be resolved quickly.
When the US president is blowing hot air on social media and talking about "a whole civilization will die tonight" and getting in fights with the Pope, wtf
Again if you give them the most charitable faith you possibly could, maybe there is a good reason they are there, but there is no good reason to post comments like that during the conflict. And then when the religious leaders, who lets just be real for a second and admit would easily not take a stance probably if he just watched his mouth, have to step in to oppose him and then his will to get into fights with them, and literally oppose his own voterbase by insulting the popular religion of the country; it all suggests and points back to: This isn't the strong president he portrays himself as. It's an impulsive man.
This leads you to thinking back to the last war like this...
If you give their position the most charitable faith, it's still the same excuse that was used to justify the last war in the middle east, which was proven to be complete bullshit.
I don't know what is going on over there. But I don't want to have anything to do with the region. I don't care if Israel is the good guy. I don't care if Palestine is the good guy. I don't care about Jews or Islam. I don't care if Iran kills their own people. I don't care if Israel spits on Christians. I don't care about any of these middle eastern people. As far as I'm concerned they're all same thing and we should have NOTHING to do with any of them.
How's that for a regretable post.