By John Galt
December 4, 2011 – 16:45 ET
While the mainstream media and blogosphere searches desperately for the “oh my God we are all going to die” story of the day, the reality of the story behind the alleged shooting down of the drone is somewhat more overblown than the usual hysterical rantings of the Iranian regime. Reality? This is not the first drone shot down, and it will not be the last. The reason it is a big deal is not that the Iranian media and Western mainstream media is desperate for any news in a normally slow news period; it is a big deal only because the Iranians are looking to proclaim they are persecuted by the West and somehow tie all the mysterious explosions at their various nuclear and missile facilities in the past several weeks.
The story from Reuter’s drops a hint as to the bluster from the Tehran dictatorship:
U.S.-Iran row overshadows Afghan conference
Of course, the Iranians started their usual bluster of bullcrap and vapid venting (excerpted from the story above):
“The Iranian military’s response to the American spy drone’s violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran’s borders,” the military source said, without elaborating.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right.
Firing spitballs at our “diplomats” at the U.N.?
Maybe a “pie attack” or funding an Occupy Poopfest at Hillary Clinton’s residence?
The truth is that this is the most over-rated story of the weekend and totally irrelevant. It will not impact oil prices, at least those oil traders with more than 3 functioning brain cells and there is no threat of a major war breaking out from this. The bigger story are the rumors of stealth drones taking out the Iranian facilities and just whose drones they are, not what happened to an ancient allegedly Predator style drone hit by a lucky shot after it was launched from Eastern Afghanistan or off the deck of a U.S. carrier offshore.
If this event involved a manned aircraft with casualties or the pilot being captured, one could get excited. In the mean time, focusing more on one’s fantasy football team seems more prudent than this overblown story hyped up by a bunch of fanatics who believe their salvation will come from a dead guy emerging from a well.
Update via Reuters:
ISAF says drone lost over Afghanistan late last week
At least the fertilizer division of the DoD is working 100% of the time 24/7.
Maybe after the 2012 elections we’ll have fewer drones.
Oops! What was I thinking? Musta been about WashDC, not Iran. Silly me.