"How Does It Effect Me?" Nincompoopery

Eddie and I joked about disaster coverage in the Los Angeles Times.  It wasn't a disaster unless a Star lost his or her home.  The bigger the Star the bigger the disaster (which is why Malibu Mud-slides are HUGE and Riverside Wildfires where 50 homes were burnt are Metro Section at best).
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We also tend to look at world events purely in scorecard terms.  What does it mean to us?  The cover of the New York Times shows this all to blatantly.
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The uprisings do NOT help Iran, you nincompoops!  Iran has been subject to revolts themselves.  It may (MAY) ultimately help the Shiite Majorities, but that isn't so much helping Iran as, you know, Democracy or a Republic.  Given people a voice isn't tantamount to burnishing Iranian Flags and demanding a nuclear weapon.  I find it amazing that the New York Times would print drivel like this.
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Here is the other thing it does recklessly.  It casts Iran as our enemy - because it assumes we need a simple national enemy.  But Iran isn't awful.  They want a nuc, but so what.  Pakistan and India both have them and we don't care.  North Korea has one and we haven't invaded it.  Israel has them.  Waiting a nuclear deterrent makes perfect sense in reality.  Iran doesn't have to be our enemy.  We are grown ups and shouldn't fear a country we could destroy in less than 9 hours with ease.