My Conspiracy Theory

I love trying to follow the global political spectrum. I believe the ebb and flow can be as predictable as popular culture, because essentially they are the same. In this age of technological exuberance, information seemingly unfolds within the blink of an eye. Trends are born and die every second of every minute of every hour. However, in cases of global politics and in popular culture, unseen hands are ever employed. Decisions are made behind closed doors that set everything in motion. Fads are decided upon and given to the masses as sustenance. Because our masters know what's best.
Regarding the recent and current fun over in Iran, I am calling bullshit.
We have been involved there for decades, notably the neverending Iran Contra drama in the 1980's and on to Clinton's initiating mass bombing (beginning on the very same day of the Columbine shootings- a curious day in the world history of violence, to be sure) and up to the past few years of Neocon insistence at chasing nuclear windmills thereabouts with increased military expenditures. Even less than a year ago Right-wingers were innuendoing as loudly as possible that we should deal with this growing threat of Iran, to the point of it being a key issue in the last presidential election. But over what exactly, a perceived nuclear threat that Nato and United Nations surveyors have failed repeatedly to fully verify? Our national worries that Iran would not be able to control its own potential for violence as well as we do ours?
Suddenly, Iran is all over the news, via the words of sympathetic reporters trying to define the falsities of stolen elections in terms American viewers can relate to.
Arguably, the Western media first began to acknowledge the social unrest via social networking sites like twitter and facebook. Word spread like wildfires days before any major news affiliate would publicly address the issue. And now even President Obama is at last beginning to voice his disapproval at the goings on. Beating protesters ain't kosher anywhere, twouldst seem.
Notice though how the White House stayed silent until Republican voices began to speak out first, specifically questioning this administration's lackadaisically timid recognition of the troubles. Why the apparent concerned 180 from the Conservatives?
And more importantly, why has the political drama of Iran NOW touched the hearts of American protesters everywhere? Why such efforts, when there are worse tragedies going on daily elsewhere in the world? Where the hell was America's direly urgent concerns over the countless deaths in Darfur- the finest of examples?
Because unlike the true modern holocausts that deserve the attentions of the media and the compelled imaginations of its viewers, strings were not being pulled. And by this, I mean your fucking puppet strings.
Here is what I see going on.
Just as with the mass insanity that led us to Iraq following 9/11, Iran has ALWAYS been the next spot on our agenda. That much has been redundantly obvious for years now. Whoever controls our military industrial complex (and Republicans nor Democrats either one could carry full blame) is progressing their aims like clockwork, and the bleeding hearts of America are falling in line, playing their parts like every other time. They came closest to fertilization during the previous administration of course, but were simply overextended by said activities in Iraq. So, slight alteration. We are given a new presidential face, with the bulk of the population feeling appeased by comparison to the otherwise monstrous acts of the far Right-wing Republicans of the past decade.
I think the social media news breaks were plants. The booming stories were planted in the intrawebz to create a faceless source of information for all to hear of how hard the sky is falling. After enough days the trend caught fire, if for no other reason than statistic-wise- Bubba and Crystal-lynne in bible belt America and their contradictory NRA/Pro-Life mentalities, while already eager and willing to support militant action against everyone who did not grow up on hot dogs, are currently the minority while simultaneously being less likely to spend much time on stated intrawebz. Statistic-wise. So, the opposing side had to be won over. The otherwise well-read opposing side that does frequent the intrawebz moreso than their Republican counterparts.
I do not mean to downplay the unjust violence going on in Iran RIGHT NOW, but there are numerous evils abound globally, with far far more deathly dire consequences already rendered. Why to care about yet another crude dictator, when there are easily dozens upon dozens of the same cut? So, sob stories were played up, written like an explicitly catered morsel of underdog angst to capture the hearts and minds of Liberals everywhere. The motors get fired up with righteous indignation, word spreads faster than thumbnails go green, and the national media broadcasters have no choice to give airtime to this new unfolding Middle Eastern pathos. The Republican voicemen opportunists twist their own agendas in the public light, compelling the president to begin taking a serious examination of possible roads that will now just have to be tread.
And, like as was always the plan, our military industrial complex masters (and likely of sordidly assorted corporate-sponsorships) are polishing their guns for the next chapter of their bloody and mysterious libretto.

And everyone has fallen for the plan, hook line and sinker.