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To: Mr. K
What happened to all the students who were starting to protest their own government in Iran? For a while there I thought we were banking on a popular uprising against them.

The problem with relying on any type of internal resistance is sorting out the real ones from the intelligence folks -- and many of the loudest ones are agents provocateurs. We don't have time to engage is such a time-consuming endeavor -- Iran will very soon have the bomb, and even if there were a significant real resistance, counting on it alone would be unwise. Rebellions are uncertain endeavors, at best, and we just don't have time to see how one might play out in Iran.

16 posted on 11/30/2004 12:30:52 PM PST by snowsislander
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To: snowsislander

Successful popular uprisings are mostly fantasy anyway.


21 posted on 11/30/2004 12:35:39 PM PST by Ashamed Canadian
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