This morning on the radio I heard that the President-elect in Iran appears to be one of the terrorists involved in the Iran hostage crisis. For those of you who don't remember it:
"The Iran hostage crisis was a 444-day period during which the new government of Iran after the Iranian Revolution held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States. It is believed by many to have caused President Jimmy Carter of the United States to lose his re-election attempt, and punctuated the first fundamentalist Islamic revolution of modern times. It began on November 4, 1979 and lasted until January 20, 1981."
When I heard about this guy I started thinking about those days. This whole mess was going on when I was in senior high. I remember one night at the all night drive-in movies, a regular occurrence for senior high people, when a crowd standing around the snack bar started chanting "Fuck Iran!" It started small, but soon enough pretty much everyone inside the gates was crushed together and screaming this chant for a very long time. Several hundred people all chanting for about 1/2 an hour "Fuck Iran!" "Fuck Iran!" "Fuck Iran!"
That was the sentiment back then. The whole thing was so aggravating and all the talk was about kicking the Iranians' butts. There were some serious anti-Iran feelings everywhere. You couldn't escape it.
Now think about this; those people are now of the age where they may be in places of authority in our government. If not in government, at least of the age to be of some influence. That time was something they won't forget about. If this new leader in Iran is one of those terrorists, he probably has some serious anti-American sentiments. If he does and he has designs on making trouble, he should probably take into account the long memory of those of us affected by the whole Iran hostage crisis era and think twice.
Because I don't think there will be too much sentiment against flattening their country into a complete and total desert. I for one wouldn't mind it a bit.
We do live in interesting times.
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