Regime Change don’t come easy
A quotation from a former defense official via the The New Yorker:
“a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.”
These kinds of assumptions are the same as those that led the Bush administration to believe that people would welcome them with leis and hookahs. Instead of relying on the self fulfilling beliefs of the loyally appointed mission planners, perhaps we might want to do some research as to how people will react. This with the full understanding that until you actually dropping bombs on them, you really have no idea whatsoever how a people will react. The article continues:
“While one goal was to have ‘eyes on the ground’, the broader aim was to ‘encourage ethnic tensions’ and undermine the regime.”
Just going by one recent example (Iraq), it took three years to encourage ethnic tensions and that’s assuming the administration, which has been vehemently denying civil war, is wrong in its assessment. Finally, the only sensible quotation from the article:
“What will 1.2 billion Muslims think the day we attack Iran?”
And that is really the crux of the matter; especially when you consider that most Muslims live in countries with state controlled media. Their exposure to world events is typically 100% propaganda.