Posted on 02/11/2005 1:32:20 PM PST by F14 Pilot
They might not defend the regime but they won't like foreign invaders too!
I still remember the joy expressed in 1979!
what joy?
Regime change may come to Iran without the United States even having to fire a single shot. I am hoping that freedom seeking Iranians will be emboldened by the events in Iraq and take their country back. This also would give them an enourmous sense of pride to have done it without the United States and what a huge message such an event would send to the rest of the middle east. Maybe Im dreaming, but I sure wish it would go down this way.
Sure, and they'll greet our troops with cheers and rose petals, too.
By the people after Carter greased the Shah's skids!
That is awsome, I am hoping for it too!
The Revolutionary Guards are pretty enormous and pretty fanatical.
The entire country isn't represented by Tehran College Students.
Opposition groups at times have a tendency to exaggerate how easily a government could be overthrown (Bay of Pigs, anyone?)
On the other hand repressive governments can at times fall with shocking ease.
I'm very skeptical of Iran though.
With Iraq as a perspective, I don't think we can judge one way or the other how Iranians would respond to an attack against the mullahs. It is safe to predict that the unpredictable will occur, to one degree or another. We have to be careful here. If we can foment a revolution from within through special ops, that is our best bet.
I want to believe this, but this is exactly what was said of the Iraqi people.
I not only think we shouldn't invade Iran, I strongly believe we won't have to do so. You want democracy? Get it the old fashioned way--earn it. The US invaded Iraq for legit reasons of national security among others. Doesn't mean that's the solution to every situation. And in Iran's case there is neither the will nor the need when its people haven't even mounted a years-long visible resistance.
A few people or better to say minority of Iranians greeted the leave of the late Shah of Iran.
I think there is opposition every where. But MAJORITY of people were indeed sad with what happened to Iran in 1979.
"I tend to think they would fight back if they had a racial or nationalistic hatred for the invaders. We'd be in a serious war if we tried."
Yes a serious war indeed, but one that, if we fought it with a WWII attitude, would last about a month.
"I tend to think they would fight back if they had a racial or nationalistic hatred for the invaders. We'd be in a serious war if we tried."
Yes a serious war indeed, but one that, if we fought it with a WWII attitude, would last about a month.
So why don't they rise up and overthrow their own dictators?
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