So, I feel like I\u2019ve been down this road before.\u00a0 I remember when George W Bush said we had to go into Iraq.\u00a0 And I was gung-ho.\u00a0 We\u2019d blitz Saddam and drag him off and then give Iran the same treatment and the world would be peaceful and quiet from then on.\u00a0 And we\u2019d do it by remote control like some big old video game where everyone comes home in one piece and that would be the end of that.<\/p>\n
Well, that\u2019s twenty plus years ago and we\u2019re all a lot older and wiser now, I thought.\u00a0 So, what the hell does Donald Trump think he\u2019s going to do with this Iran thing?\u00a0 Iran is bigger and uglier than Iraq was.\u00a0 Sure, half of its people hate their own government and are celebrating the bombing of the Republican Guards and the death of Ali Khamenei.\u00a0 All of that sounds great but when the missile launchers and the other long-distance weapons have been neutralized but the bad guys are still the ones with all the machine guns killing civilians what happens then?\u00a0 Are we going to send in the Marines?\u00a0 And what happens when the body bags start coming home?\u00a0 That would be the end of the Republicans for another decade.<\/p>\n
What occurred to me was that maybe the CIA and Mossad can funnel guns to the people who want to get rid of the Islamic State.\u00a0 If they have enough actual men who are willing to go head-to-head against the Republican Guards then a small team of trainers from these intelligence agencies could stand up a credible force within Iran to overwhelm the Islamic State with the help of targeted aerial attacks from the Israelis and Americans.\u00a0 But is that really going to happen?\u00a0 I\u2019ve read that Mossad is already on the ground in Iran and has been for years.\u00a0 That explains how they\u2019ve been able to sabotage things like the Iranian nuclear program and Hezbollah\u2019s cell phones.\u00a0 Maybe they really will be able to topple this regime in the next few weeks.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely possible and Israel has an existential reason for wanting the Iranian regime to disappear.\u00a0 If the Islamic State were toppled tomorrow, Hezbollah and Hamas lose their paymaster and greatest ally.\u00a0 Most of the violence in the Middle East loses its sponsor.\u00a0 Without the mullahs it\u2019s even possible that Lebanon could become a normal country again.\u00a0 And a peaceful and prosperous Iran would change the whole balance of power in the Middle East and might even stabilize the whole region.\u00a0 Think of the amount of misery that would disappear from that tortured region.<\/p>\n
Well, those are all the good words I can think of for a situation that is fraught with peril.\u00a0 I just hope Trump knows exactly what he is doing and what to do in every one of a thousand scenarios that could happen in that insane corner of the world.\u00a0 When I think of all the possible ways things can head south very fast and very badly It makes my head ache.\u00a0 Okay, Khamenei is dead.\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 Now what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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