Imgaine This Scenario...

Iran, the worlds largest consumer of corn-based fuel, has outgrown it's ability to supply it's own fuel. Once bountiful cornfields have slowly turned to desert, while demands for corn-fuel have far outstripped demand and domestic ability to meet that demand. Around the world, corn-fuel costs have skyrocketed, leaving Iran to wonder where it will get the money to buy enough corn-fuel to meet it's needs. Everything in Iran runs on corn-fuel: cars, buses, trains, power plants, and all manner of infrastructure. Without cheap, readily available corn-fuel, Iran's way of life is threatened.

The Ayatollah decides that the best way to deal with this urgent problem is to take over the corn-fields of another country under the guise of self-defense. The Mullahs and Imams begin to whip their populace into a jingoist fervor against the imminent threat posed by...Mexico. You see, Mexico, despite being a semi-impoverished 2nd world nation, actually poses a clear and present danger to Iranian national security. So, Iranian leadership makes the case for the invasion and occupation of Mexico in the name of regime change and world security. In the process, Iran will gain direct control of Mexico's vast cornfields, which it will use to both power itself and reward the Corn-Fuel industry back in Iran.

Iran goes to the U.N. and shows how those dastardly Mexicans are building WMD's, with the potential to strike at the very beating hear of Tehran. They show Powerpoint slides showing mobile nerve gas trailers where deadly nerve gas it created to be used on the enemies and **gasp** the Nicaraguans, who only wished to leave in peace in the shadow of the evil Mexican collossus. Iran uses its considerable political clout and arm-swi...

Aw heck, this allegory is lost on me!