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Iran post II

Half my family is Jewish.  Most of them are of the typical liberal stripe, but like an increasing number of Jewish Americans, bizarre ideas about foreign policy have metastasized among a small minority of them.  It seems that neoconservatism can be frustratingly infectious. 

But anyway, back in 2003 at a Passover Seder I got into a spirited ‘debate’ with a (non-blood) relative about his fucking insane notions of the then, fresh-off-the-shelf Iraq war.  It was still the statue toppling, museum looting days, so the dispute was largely intellectual.  Being right, I argued that the United States would likely face seemingly unending guerilla warfare as the country slid slowly into civil war.  He argued that Americans would be showered with rose petals and that by today most of the Middle East would be mounting homegrown democratic insurrections. 

Over the last few years, I’ve had the common decency not to mention his horrible idiocy.  I bring it up now though – because I still hold to the belief that if we just leave Iran alone, they will turn out just fine.  If we bomb them, then all bets are off.  The youth of Iran, (who make up a majority of the population) do not much care for their pole up their ass holier than thou government.  Leave them alone and eventually grow out of them, either violently or by sheer numbers and force.  It was going in that direction before we went and invaded Iraq and it will continue to do so as long as we stop threatening to attack them.

When your country gets attacked, people rally around even the stupidest, most despotic dipshits.  [i.e. 9-11 and (possible upcoming attack to be blamed on Iran)]  Bombing Iran will not help along the process of Iranian democratic reforms.  It will just kill a lot of people and make the rest murderously angry.  O’well.