Reply #48: Just how have they been for our necessary national security? [View All]

[MUAD_DIB]

Not to sound naive, but what aspect of trying to overthrow a sovereign state, through covert means, is in our national security?

Wouldn't that just cause more unrest in the region? In addition who would keep that said country from collapse, and possible civil strife, if * were to be successful in brining it down? Are we going to have a draft since we don't have the troops to occupy a country with the landmass about 4 times the size of Iraq? In effect if we bring that country down then there will be more of a problem and a bigger threat to our national security than if we try diplomacy.

Present day Iran is a byproduct of our doing. We disappeared the elected government in the early 50s and installed the Shah on his Peacock Throne. We supported his (helped create) death squads. We gave him military equipment and it did not matter. He was overthrown and what we have today is the result of sad affair of pretending to be a Democracy while not allowing others to share in it: keeping them as vassal states.

The worst thing that * could do right now would be to upset the region any more than it already has.


It is almost as if they really want a self fulfilling prophesy to bring on the end times.



Again. I don't have any love for the theocracy in Iran, but there are better ways of getting what you want without hitting a bee hive with a one foot stick.