How is This Regime Change Thing Going



From what one observes living far from Washington, DC, there is a constant narrative within the intelligence community one countries need new leadership. Generation after generation of U.S. officials are certain they know how to bring this about and start working on it. It seems like it is seldom successful and often makes things worse. When it is successful it also makes things worse. The link talks of Christian denominations being asked to bring regime change in Cuba. The President talks of it. The clock has run out on regime change in Cuba and Iran.

Back a few generations Washington was certain the Shah of Iran was the leader Iran needed. Mostly, he was the leader the U.S. needed. He set off, needlessly it now seems, anger and resentment that led to a religious takeover of that country which continues today. The Trump Administration thinks it can put into office another Shah. No luck with that so far.

It could be argued Iraq is better today and this is because Sadam was run down and killed. There are plenty of reasons to doubt that was a big victory for the U. S. We don't know how things would have turned out if we had just let Sadam alone for his life to live out and events there play out. Today they might be better or be worse. 

I think most readers would agree the evolving "peace deal" with Iran will not make things better than they were before. There were always limited to what Iran could do in the nuke world. Israel could always drop its own nukes on Iran. There is no way Iran could have built a nude bomb and used it on anyone without seeing their own country wiped off the map. 

Conservatives, including those in Israel, need to forget the notion they can change the entire religious and political direction of another country. They would do better by simply changing their politics to help the citizens of this country and others might copy us. 

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