{"id":3253,"date":"2009-06-23T00:21:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T04:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2009-06-23T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T04:24:12","slug":"shock-and-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/shock-and-awe\/","title":{"rendered":"shock, and awe…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don’t understand what’s happening in Iran. I doubt that any of us do. All we’ve seen of the country previously is Ahmadinejad. All we’ve heard is the obviously simplified and distorted version from the Bush Axis of Evil lunatics. I’m not even sure I understand much about their government – how the Theocracy and Ahmadinejad fit together. And I don’t understand much about their version of Islam except that it is a Shia country.<\/div>\n

But I understand some things. The people of Iran are people like us, and they’re mad as hell about how things are going right now. Whatever is happening there is both none of our business, and is of great interest, because in these last few days, all of the propaganda from the Bush years has been rendered inoperative. I don’t think it even matters what those people in the streets think about the future of Iranian-American relations. It doesn’t look to me like they’re thinking about that at all. What matters is that they feel that they have been wronged, and I doubt very seriously that whatever we thought we were going to be dealing was even in the ball park.<\/p>\n

Until it becomes clear, all we can do is watch in awe as this incredible story unfolds – and it is an incredible story. From today:<\/p>\n

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I don’t understand what’s happening in Iran. I doubt that any of us do. All we’ve seen of the country previously is Ahmadinejad. All we’ve heard is the obviously simplified and distorted version from the Bush Axis of Evil lunatics. I’m not even sure I understand much about their government – how the Theocracy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}