I remember back in elementary school, it is cut and clear when there was a school yard fight who is the good and who is the bad. Who was the bully and who was the victim. But when you mix in politics and propaganda, this view is no longer so clear cut. I am referring to the recent riot in Iran, where the British Embassy was, for the lack of better term, violated. And as we sit and watch and discuss the outcome and criticize how the Iranian government is not handling their international affair better, we never really talk about what cause these hatred.
I only have a few analogy to our current situation. Imagine you are a teenager, and as you are growing up, your friends are all experimenting with all type of things, and one of the thing is weed. You thought about it, and brought the material to roll one up. You parents found out, and start taking away things of yours. No TV, no food, no internet, no etc... But it is very public knowledge that they are the 4th biggest smoker in town, and still smoking weed, and have a high stock pile of it. ("Federation of American Scientists :: Status of World Nuclear Forces". Fas.org. 2010-05-26. Retrieved 2010-07-30) As a teenager, wouldn't you rebel?
I don't think destroying things in an embassy is the right way of handling things, but for a country that is bullied, and hazed, I don't think there are anything we can do about this. We are making such a big fuss about college, high school, sports team hazing that is has become a very controversial subject and the punishment involves jail time. But yet we allow countries to do it to one and other and praise the bullies for doing so. This seem a big outrageous in my opinion.
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