Bimps and politics, Or how life could have been better in Iran and Afghanistan had we had better blimp technology

After what happened in the Iran Election 2009, I really do wish the west would be able to get its act together in Afghanistan, and trust me these two are related! Here we will present how airships could have actually helped the political life and hence the daily well being of people both in Afghanistan and Iran and how they can do so in the future.

The ruling clergy in Iran has been promising a prosperous Iran ever since its conception. Not only have we not reached that prosperity, but also the living and working quality of life in Iran has fallen behind countries that were once less developed like south Korea turkey and Malaysia. Prosperity in neighbouring countries whose administrations have become democratic can heavily undermine the promise of prosperity in Iran and grossly educate people on the pros of a democratic government. I have to add a note here that many people in Iran really haven't realized that and some even still believe democracies to be devious systems.

Afghanistan could have been a great informative example for Iranians because of its similarity to Iran in terms of demography and because of a strong tie between the people of the two nation. Given that I believe both the Iraq and Afghanistan war were justified, although the Iraq war went well¹, the state of Afghanistan is now in a mess and this chance for eduction is currently being lost. lets face it, the international community in Afghanistan has failed both militarily and socially.

The Airships, had the technology been available, could have changed the odds in both fronts. In the military aspect, Al-Qa'ida has been active mostly in small villages and rough mountainous regions. Autonomous Airships could have provided a great surveillance option to the authorities over the movement of forces on dirt roads and on the mountains. They could have traced every single vehicle in specific regions and they could have spotted human activities in unknown mountainous hideouts.

From the social aspect, communications and mass media (here radio and TV mostly) play a massive role in educating the public, neither of which existed in Afghanistan, and neither of which is easy to provide for in a country with no infrastructure. Airship could have been a viable solution for providing communications and mass media for the type of small communities that exist in Afghanistan.

We can see in Iran how the success of the campaign in Iraq is putting pressure on Iranian authorities and this is evident by the sort of propaganda they are trying to feed us about the current situation in Iraq (apparently the Iraqis are all dying!). Had better technology been used, Afghanistan would have been the same nightmare to the Sepah dwellers in Tehran.

All is not that bad though, we have got plenty of time to develop these technologies to meet economical communication demands in the world and war demands in upcoming conflicts.

1--- In my opinion, the Iraq war was as successful as it could ever be. In a country with so many Ideologies that prescribe murder for the opposing Ideology, you actually can not try to set things right without some of those madmen killing civilians. Furthermore I am sure that the country will flourish in 5 to 20 years time as already their civilian death toll from violence is far less than the death toll from road accidents in Iran.