Media Mindfulness

So I was being snarky when I posted on a wingnut’s case to nuke the moon. As I explained in that post, crossing the “insane” threshold is a political and military strategy to make people believe you will do anything to rule the world. After all, when logic fails, why not scare the shit out of people? So what follows is very serious and is not done in the spirit of trying scare but to make sure we understand the grave situation we are in and that as many citizens as possible understand what could potentially happen in the very near future concerning Bush’s desires to use nukes. Hopefully this is just a worst-case scenario and is simply alarming to make the point that there needs to be a cogent response to what appears to be a rather scary mentality at work.

You can read here the AP article on Iran’s enrichment program and reader comments at the Huffington Post.

The following interview with Jorge Hirsch, a professor of Physics at the University of California, on the recent news that Bush plans to nuke Iran should be considered as just one opinion among many. I encourage people to inform themselves as much as possible, and do what ever is possible to create a space for a peaceful resolution to the current situation. (Please send alternatives and I’ll post them.)

ZNet |Iran | Nuking Iran :

“I believe there is a high probability of war with Iran because key people in the administration desperately want it, but I don’t believe it is inevitable. I hope there will be a sufficiently large public outburst of opposition, eg thanks to Hersh’s and other’s revelations, to make it impossible. The dire situation in Iraq of course is making it more difficult, and I hope there will be strong voices in the administration and influential republicans that will recognize the likely disastrous consequences and oppose it. Or perhaps influential old-timers like Bush Sr. and Scowcroft will be able to dissuade President Bush.”