Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Can Iran's Ayatollahs Be Toppled?


How To Topple The Ayatollahs -- Jamsheed K. Choksy, Wall Street Journal

Western strikes should target Tehran's military and paramilitary forces, crippling the regime's machinery of domestic repression.

Why, despite the growing danger posed by Iran's nuclear program, have the United States and other nations restricted themselves to negotiations, economic sanctions and electronic intrusions? None of those tactics has been particularly effective or produced enduring changes.

The main argument against military action is that it would set Iran's nuclear program back only a few years, and that Tehran would retaliate directly and via surrogates, drawing the U.S. into another unwinnable war. Many fear also that Iranians will rally behind their regime with nationalist fervor, dashing hope of regime change for decades and turning Iran's largely pro-Western population against the West once again, to the mullahs' great benefit.

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My Comment: This is what I call wishful thinking. Bombing Iran's military infrastructure will not give the Iranians the motivation to take on the theocracy .... in fact .... Iranian nationalism being what it is .... they will probably join them.

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