My official position is that America should keep out of the Iran situation. America can only make matters worse (and that would be with a competent president at the helm).

Any American involvement will play into the Mullah's hands as it reinforces THEIR message that the upheaval is due to outside agitators.

America should learn the Libya intervention lesson, stay out of civil wars.

But President Piggy won't. He will bomb Iran and BEST case the regime responds with a token response. Piggy will then demand all of Iran's oil.

Of course, the potential worst case is the Iranian regime faces an existential threat and decides to go scorched earth and bombs everyone in their neighborhood, unleashes terrorist attacks and oh yeah has developed a dirty bomb or two from their nascent nuclear program.

So, yeah, I don't trust President Piggy to handle this well.

Thanks magat scum.

I have mosquito bites that mean more to me

Hey Truth,
I do agree with you, in principle, that we need to stay out of it.
But what should be done? Anything?
Progressives sure want a lot to be done about Gaza, but nothing in Iran?

#12 | Posted by boaz

Do you honestly not understand the difference between what is happening in Iran and what is happening in Gaza?

Seriously?

America is complicit in Israeli's genocide and American progressives were/are protesting to stop that violence by attempting to get our government to change it's policy towards Israel.

America has no current say over Iran's actions. Progressives are all for Iran liberating itself from tyrannical rule. But there is not much that protesting here could achieve there.

The Iran situation is incredibly complex and there is not much America could do without making things worse. I laid out some of those concerns in 6 above.

The pragmatist in me says we should be careful about wishing the downfall of the Ayatollahs. Those are people without a great deal of scruples. If they are about to fall and see gallows in their future who knows how they would lash out including terrorist attacks and possibly dirty bombs.

The downfall of Saddam should be a lesson to all; the fall of the Ayatollah won't lead to democracy and unicorns. There will be massive civil war, leading to migration, leading to even more disruption in the region and yes immigration legal and otherwise into America.