Nearly easter
It is the long weekend ahead with good friday and easter monday. This year there seem to be more 4 day weekends this year than that in the last couple of years. That's awesome as it gives more time for doing pre-prod for the movie. I just came back from a long and productive meeting with Richard and it just gets thrilling all the time with all the small but significant strides that we are making with the movie. We are now about 2 months and a bit away from production of the movie. Time is going to become extremely rare.On a worldwide level - it amazes me that the super powers are denouncing Iran's stride in producing enriched Uranium on their own while on the other hand, US is happy with Australia to sell enriched Uranium to countries like India. Why are they so upset - because they can't sell anything to Iran? Or because they need a reason to go to war for more oil? Afterall the campaign in Iraq did not shape up as they wanted. Iran is the same country which was used by the allied forces as a base for operations against Afghanistan and Iraq to a large extent and is now included in the 'axis of evil'. People seem to have such short term memories about things and just buy into any crap which governments seem to put out through media outlets. What is the US really doing? Are they installing demoracy in all the countries? Nope....it is a complete eyewash for their agenda in pursual of more oil - a resource which we are exhausting really quick. Everything keeps coming back to oil but people fail to see it in their myopic vision of the world order and politics.
Enough of my ramble about oil and politics.
Good night,
Amit
Labels: Introspection
posted by Amit @ 9:43 PM
2 Comments:
Well I think the countries that be are against Iran potentially getting nukes because Iran clearly has had a violent agenda in the past. It wasn't too many months back that their leader said Israel should be wiped off the map. And let's face it, 90% of Iranians are fanatics that believe any non-muslim shouuld either be converted or ruled by Muslims. At any rate, I don't ever remember allied forces being based out of Iran. I'd very interested to see reports of such as the U.S. has been sanctioning Iran for a very long time now for their terrorist activities in Lebannon and else where.
As for India getting the nuke...well this is probably just going to sound like plain ignorance on my part but, I'm not sure that a country comprised mostly of people who believe that if they blew up half of pakistan, they'd just be re-incarnated, should have such power either. lol.
Seriously, The U.S. and the U.N. are just a little worried about who gets nuclear tech because although such countries may just use it as a power source with peaceful intentions, countries like Iran and North Korea would most ikely use it as a threat of power with the ability of a nuclear strike.
Is there an agenda in the middle east? Yeah and of course it has something to do with oil. But then again, it is a somewhat valid concern that their be some degree of stability in the region that holds 80% of the world's energy supply.
Anyway, I better just shut up now because every time I talk politics I get myself into a disagreement.
You know, I keep hearing the oil argument, but I just don't buy it. If the US was only after oil, why try to install a democracy? Why invest all of the time, money and human life when we could simply use the old Roman Empire approach and take it. Why not let them each kill the other while we siphon the land dry? Why rebuild hospitals or get electricity going or build schools or have elections if it was just about oil? That logic makes no sense what-so-ever.
As for Iran, it's obvious that unless you were an American on 9/11, you just don't understand the issue.
And that's okay.
Radical Muslims would kill me, my family and all of my friends simply because we're American. No other reason. Not because we did anything personally to them, but because we were born here.
Understanding that, allowing a country controlled by that mentality the ability to kill millions of us in a single hit... we have to try and stop it. How hard is that to understand?
If you really think its about oil, let Iran build nukes and watch passively by as they turn Israel to glass and kill millions of innocent Americans in one of our bigger cities with a nuke.
If you think that is an over-reaction, then please give me any substantial history that should lead me to feel otherwise? Taking hostages in the '70s? Supporting terrorism against America globally? Publically calling for the destruction of my country? Where in any of this are American's supposed to believe they would not use a nuke against us? Why on Earth should be possibly believe otherwise?
I think our government owes us more than a post-nuke attack 'oops, we guessed wrong' press conference.
If you knew someone wanted to kill you, would you watch them build a gun or would you punch them when they're unarmed?
Middle Easter politics has always been much more complex than oil. Saying American's tactics are solely for oil is ignoring centuries of subtlties that are equally important in the events there.
On a much lighter note :) - looking forward to your next project. Thanks for the on-going updates.
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