Iran; in general

[Beestie]

Back in the 70s the Shah of Iran asked the US for help making Iran nuclear capable. The US - or should I say Israel - said no. So Iran went to Russia. So the CIA had the Shah tossed out leading to the return of Islamic theocracy. Oops.

Today, less than 30 years later, Iran is both nuclear capable AND an Islamic theocracy. Double oops.

All that right on the heels of the miserable failure of our domino theory experiment in Vietnam.

And now, our experiment in Iraq.

I'm beginning to think that we need a constitutional amendment to put control of the military under the Senate. The office of the president apparently can't handle the power and has a child's understanding of world affairs.

And just to complete the thought, I don't doubt for an instant that Iran needs a regime change any more than I doubt that Sheryl Crowe needs an underwear change. The problem is a change to what? Or to whom? Its like everyone just pats themselves on the back for coming to the painfully obvious point that the wrong guy/people are in charge of Iran. Well any moron can see that. Who wants to take responsibility for the choice of the new regime when it goes horribly wrong. Again. And again.

Its almost sad to see Bush standing around with his thumb in his mouth trying to figure out exactly that question about Iraq.