La-la-la, I can't heeaaaar yoooooou!

Seriously: is it me, or is the Iran/US thing getting more and more like a couple of five-year-olds fighting over something completely inane? Not that I think nuclear anything is inane. My point of view is that no one needs nukes and no one should have them. The US should set an example by gradually reducing our arsenal to nothing. Some of our allies (Britian, perhaps) keep theirs, so that China or someone doesn't get any funny ideas. Then, gradually, everyone follows suit and we're all happy and not about to die terrible deaths.

But. That's not going to happen. What is happening is the rest of the world has decided that, while we're allowed to have both nuclear bombs and powerplants, Iran is not, therefore they say, "Hey! Iran! Knock it off, man." Then Iran says, "Nope." The US, in response, said "Okay, man, seriously. We're the Big Tough Guy. Stop it or we'll go all Shock-And-Awe on you." (I might be paraphrasing slightly here. They don't invite me to these meetings.) Then Iran is all, "Hey, yeah, we'll talk to you about what you want us to do, as long as we keep doing what we're doing for now." The US is all, "No way. If we're going to sit down and tell you to stop enriching uranium, you're going to stop enriching uranium before we tell you to stop enriching uranium."

Then, one of two possible things happens: the very fabric of space and time crumples away into nothingness and it's all pretty much irrelevant, anyway. Or, people like me roll their eyes, wonder why the most powerful people are also the least mature, and start to be fairly certain that within ten years we'll all be cosmic vapor wisping around a nuclear wasteland.