Iranian Election Drama

What do you do to alleviate boredom? Well, if you are a writer, I guess you write. Unfortunately, for me at least, boredom triggers writers block (or maybe it is the other way around, because if I was thinking about something that I should be writing, I wouldn’t be bored.) It’s really a chicken v. egg scenario, and which the cause is and which the effect is really not relevant anyway. I am bored, and I can’t think of any way to get over it. SO, I am doing what faithful writers have always done – I am writing. About nothing. And hoping that my hands’ aimless wandering around my keyboard will trigger a good story idea. So far, nada. Alas, I am still empty headed. But I am up to a hundred and thirty words of pure rambling, which is good typing practice if nothing else.

What to write about? Maybe the pervasive and distracting heat that is causing sweat to bead at the nape of my neck. But for the life of me, and I can’t think of a single person who would want to read about my sweaty neck. Hmmm. Well, as I am writing I am also listening to the news in a half-assed manner. And right now, the Iranians are bitching about their recent election. They are all but demanding that the U.S. step in and do something about the crooked sonofabitch that is currently running their country and who presumably rigged the election to ensure that he would be able to continue to do so. They are actually acting surprised that this is the way it went down. Really?!? They effing knew that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn’t going to hold an election that he wasn’t guaranteed to win. If the Iranian people are so deluded that the think for a second that a country with a ‘supreme leader’ can also be democratic, they are crazier than anyone ever could have anticipated.

Of course, it is still sad to see so many people living under the thumb of a backwards, oppressive dictator (three hundred and fifty words now), but what do they expect America to do about it? You didn’t see the Iranian’s pulling out all the stops when Bush was sworn into office after not winning the 2000 election, so how can they reasonably expect us to involve ourselves in their political strife? It’s not as though it’s going to make any difference in the day to day lives of Iranian’s if Ahmadinejad lite runs the country instead of the man himself.

I am not trying to make light of the situation the Iranian’s are in, but I can’t really muster a lot of sympathy for their political situation either. They are a country of millions who are allowing themselves to be controlled by a little man with a big agenda. They need to unite and take their country’s political future into their own hands rather than expect other countries to come in and clean up their mess. They have allowed their country to be run into the ground, and unless they want to become another Iraq, they need to step up and take charge of themselves.