Posted on 02/06/2005 5:42:32 AM PST by Cornpone
I smell brialliant strategery here. The more the Khomeiniacs clamp down on the Iranian people the more unpopular they become with their already estranged subjects. So just be creating uncertainty about our intentions we are moving the ball down the field towards the eventual liberation of the Persians. Pretty clever.
Works for me;-)
I wonder what event will trigger the uprising over there?
External pressure, fracture, disintegration from within. The wild card is the nuclear one. Either way, the mullahs are goin' down.
Well, there is no decent MSM in the U.S. but Fox, so Iranians wanting the truth are going to have to rely on blogs and computer printers to get the word out.
If the country disintegrates into internal chaos no one would question the legitimacy of a stabilizing force going in to secure the nuclear weapons program.
This is exciting. Reminds me of eastern Europe in 1989. All hell is about to break loose.
The question is still out but I can't see anything but a democratic state evolving amongst these highly educated, independent peoples. They've already tried everything else with miserable results. They're close enough to Europe to have tasted the sweetness of freedom and market economies and they are powerful enough to defend their democracy if it is allowed to establish itself. In my mind, the real question is what impact it will have on Islam?
True, provided that happens in time. I suspect it is already in the works. The President's comments to the Iranian people during his SOTU speech came across to me like one of those Pre-D-Day radio messages to the French Underground, ie..."John has a long mustache".
"Yet so great is the disillusionment with the reformists in Iran that their candidate is unlikely to win in the forthcoming presidential election in June"
Especially since as with the last election, very few people will vote.
The people want ALL the mullahs out of the gov't; no difference between conservatives and reformists.
The population has been disarmed. It will take some doing...
We'll have to fix that.
This hearkens back to the former Soviet Union which collapsed upon itself with a not so gentle shove from Ronald Reagan. GW is president during some very historic times...
Does anyone know the name of the leading, US based movement for the liberation of Iran? I think I'd like to contribute to them somehow.
Here if the website: www.mugamullah.org
Bottom line is you won't have mullahs or Osama bin Laden religious whackos running countries, at least under the aegis of religious authority.
When the military, police and security apparatus grow tired of the crackdowns and begin to disobey or at least slow-down on the repression,
... watch for a key unit to join a large group of protesters and the whole regime will crumble into dust in a few weeks.
... or another unit will step in and we will have another Tinnamen square massacre (Iran has actually had quite a few of those already.)
That seems to be the two ways it goes in similar situations around the world in the last few decades.
I haven't been to a good gun show in quite a while.
I agree. The US should start putting out rumors that the Iranian military is planning a coup. The US should open training camps in Iraq and Afghanistan for Iranians to train militarily. We should spread rumors that the US has infiltrated the Iranian nuclear weapons program and that scientists are sabotaging their effort. We should offer Iranian pilots a huge reward for flying their jets to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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