Friday, June 12, 2009

Get Off My Lawn

America persistently complains that Iran seeks "regional dominance." This, as noted in the past, is pretty funny given the fact that America has the nations on either side of Iran under military occupation. Rather more hilarious is a country that has for two centuries invoked and enforced the Monroe Doctrine (and the Roosevelt Corollary and the Clark Memo) getting sniffy about regional dominance at all.

11 comments:

El Serracho! said...

this aggression will not stand, man.

Montag said...

america is exceptional in the belief that we can drop freedom on a people, from the sky, using bombs. death being an unarguably liberating force. force for good and all that.

ps: i really dig the use of the "latin america" tag on this post.

Anonymous said...

Ha, I didn't notice the Latin America tag, but that is fucking brilliant.

NutellaonToast said...

Makes sense to me. We don't want anyone getting into our hegemony turf, man.

Solar Hero said...

Vinimus, Vidimus, Vicimus

drip said...

I was just walking by the Canal the Carter Gave Away this morning. It's hard to see where they changed the signs. Maybe the fancy Persian script will make it all less clear.

Happy Jack said...

Somebody must be working for the weekend. You left out History's Greatest Monster Doctrine.

frijoles junior said...

The strong take what they can, the weak bear what they must.

The rest of international politics is mostly rhetoric.

cemmcs said...

What are you suggesting? It's hypocrisy? Wow, really?

Anonymous said...

Not a hockey fan, but congrats on the Penguins. Good year for Pittsburgh sports.

--Dustin

Anonymous said...

But there is no such thing as Iranian Exceptionalism, so it's wrong when they do it.