American Studies Controls the World

So we all know by now that our American Studies class changes the world. During our perilous times unit, the stock market went into a rapid decline that later became know to the United States as an economic recession. May 20th marks another one of these so called coincidences. On May 20th, 2009 Iran launched a surface-to-surface missile that has a range of 1200 miles. This is huge news because that is within range of Israel. This is a "coincidence" because just a couple weeks ago, we held our war simmulation in which Iran announced that they would begin testing nuclear weaponry. In our simmulation, World War III broke out and Israel got wiped off the face of the planet. Hopefully the real life crisis will be handled differently.

According to a news article in the New York Times, Iran has been making significant progress in the three steps to obtaining nuclear weapons: "enriching uranium to weapons grade; developing a missile capable of reaching Israel and parts of Western Europe; and designing a warhead that will fit on the missile." This is not good news. The missile that was launched yesterday not only was within range of Israel, but also United States bases in the Persian Gulf. Hopefully World War III will be avoided or in other words, hopefully our class no longer controls the fate of the universe.