I don't dislike Americans. I detest their attitude.

Everyone's holding their breaths for the end of the world this year. Well, most everyone - not me. 2012 is looking so bright, the end of the world is almost unfathomable. My 2012 began with a bang - just outside New Delhi, dancing in a crowd of strangers, while the night sky exploded in a multitude of colours. I couldn't have asked for anything more promising - except of course, RetardLove; but as New Years Eves go, this one was amazing. It set the precedent, of course, for the rest of the year - and thus far, the year hasn't disappointed.

However, I have disappointed. My apologies, loyal Pinus followers - my blog posts recently have been nowhere near the standard they were a year ago. I mean to remedy that as of right about...NOW. I found myself wanting to hurl earlier on, when I scrolled through the beloved Pinus, and found hardly any posts of intellectual stimulation in the pasts two months - horrific, I know. In my defence though, there has been nothing that made my blood curdle or my neurons spark in a frenzy of whirlwind thoughts. Till now.

I was watching Piers Morgan the other day, and he was interviewing Sean Stone - most people probably don't know who in the heck that is - for all those in the dark: Sean Stone is a 27 Year old American film director, producer, cinematographer, screenwriter and actor (he's the son of the legendary Oliver Stone). But anyway, let's move away from his impeccable pedigree and Hollywood-royalty status, and onto the fact that he's accepted Islam. Of course, the whole of the USA is in an uproar (so maybe I'm generalising here - please accept my apology those of you from the US of A who see no problem with his conversion). Piers practically said to him, "I don't like what you're up to". Forgive me, but I thought religion was a personal decision in a democracy. Before you go ahead and say, "well yeah, he basically condoned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's claims that the Holocaust was a farce", he totally did no such thing! He just stated (quite fairly I may add), that Iran had every right to their own nuclear program. In fact, watching that interview, I had only the utmost respect for Mr. Stone as he quite intelligently, logically and calmly explained himself, his actions, the religion he has chosen to follow and the stance he expressed with regards to the Iran/Israel/USA/Nuclear Program dissension. He hopes, through his conversion, to help fellow Americans learn more about the faith they so readily condemn, because of extremists who contort its peaceful nature to meet their own ends. He said, "The most important thing is I hope I can help Americans to understand the true nature of Islam." And for that, I admire the man. 

His responses to Piers in that interview made me smile, because they were so well articulated and so concise and so placidly delivered that the British Piers Morgan looked like a blustering American (to me), clutching at straws - and I usually hold Piers in high esteem (needless to say, he has gone down a few notches in my opinion). Mr. Stone was right, why shouldn't Iran have access to nuclear energy if it aids in the efficiency of the country? Many cite the reason Iran should be excluded from the elite 'nuclear club' of states, (which include the USA, the UK, Russia, France and China) is because its President is firm in his belief that, "The real cure for the conflict is elimination of the Zionist regime". Of course, I can even agree that some of Ahmadinejad's claims are extreme and I do not condone them all - but as Mr. Stone pointed out, that statement there does not mean any more than a dissolution of the state of Israel. 

That interview not only confirmed my belief that the USA is selfish and egotistical, but also that the citizens themselves are just the same. Reading through the comments on Piers Morgan's blog on the CNN website, I felt sickened by the level of ignorance, arrogance and animosity expressed in the comments by viewers - not all of them mind you, but a great many - 

"Who is this guy?? Why do you even invite this moron to your show? This idiot is not an academic, nor a scholar, he is the son of a has-been director!! Just because they direct movies does not make them smart enough to change the world! I mean, c'mon!!! He is not even the director of any movie!!! He is just trying to get attention and you gave it to him! To listen to this imbecile speak, he makes no sense, he has this stupid smirk on his face and he looks and sounds like Tori Spelling's husband!! Get real people to your interviews, people that can bring content, not this airhead stoner!!"

This person clearly has no idea himself what he is talking about. He clearly knows nothing about Sean Stone to have made those comments - anyone, with half a brain, who listens to him speak or reads his statements can tell that he is sensible and smart and thinks carefully before he speaks - which means this viewers own knowledge is greatly lacking; his abuse of punctuation is pathetic; he has no feasible grounds for refuting Mr. Stones claims too; he just sounds, like a sore loser in my opinion, a bully who thinks the more exclamations he adds in at the end of a sentence, the truer it makes it seem. Reading what that imbecile wrote makes me want to laugh really - because for a country that can boast at being the World's Superpower, most of its citizens are shining examples of a culture of stupidity and myopia. And that, is sad; frightening too.

I'm not angry at all Americans - there are pretty decent ones around, but my beef is this: (and it is not  with the potential threat Iran may impose as a Nuclear State) but rather with the audacity of the US to presume that they can dictate who can and cannot develop a nuclear program. Did all those self-righteous Americans stop to think that maybe if they stopped looking at the rest of the world as a threat, the world could be their ally? The USA has been the world Superpower for so long, that they have forgotten I think, that the world is not theirs to rule. It has not reached a stage of blatant absolutism, but it is not difficult to see a time where it possibly does. Why does it have to be an either/or situation: either you're with us or you're against us? "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely". While they're raving on about the threat Iran poses, do they remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The United States of America, is the only country, to have ever used nuclear weapons of mass destruction in warfare.