The Laughing Wolf

Iran

This one has to be short because of time, but let me just say:

SANCTIONS WON'T WORK

What we should have already been doing (and hopefully did/are) is working with the multiple groups in there that want regime change from within. The theocracy does not like or trust the people, and they know that they are not all that far away from having power slip from their grasp. We need to be funding, providing external support of all types, and providing supplies. We need to be working hard to make the mullah's nightmares come true.

If we are not already doing so, someone needs one day soon to explain why. We also need to start now and make up for lost time.

Sanctions can be used as a distraction, to make the theocracy believe we are still in our national political quagmire and that the President will have to work through the UN until it is too late. That is all for which they are going to be good.

If regime change is not possible within the limited time frame in which we must now work, then we must be prepared to take out the facilities -- no matter the cost. For the cost of not doing so will be far, far greater. If it can be done with a limited strike, and that strike can also include some additional targets that will facilitate regime change, so much the better. If that can't happen for whatever reason, we still need to take them out.

There is, of course, a lot more behind this, but I lack the time to do it justice. Go read the Iran blog links down there on the right, and some of the better blogs, and make an informed decision of your own.

LW