--- Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > assigned to an army. Or better yet, that should > > have > > been assigned to the IRANIAN army. > > I'm not so sure that would have been the most > successful or wisest choices. Iran is not exactly > popular amongst secular Arab leaders, being both > Shi'a > AND fundie Islamic government.
I am willing to admnit that this idea has flaws and dangers. I would have limited their involvement to the Shia south and then used that invasion as leverage to get sunni generals to rebel. In any event, it should have been DISCUSSED, if for no other reason than the simple fact that Saddam, the enemy, would have one worst nightmare -- a restoration of the old US Iran friendship. A restoration that should be possible, with the Iranian polity teetering on knife edge. We only do the mullahs a FAVOR with 'axis of evil" crap. Instead of sumo, a jiu jitsu APOLOGY -- for having toppled Mossadegh and helped the shah -- might do the trick! It is all (officially) they have been asking for since 1979. If rice were a Kissinger, she'd have packed her boss onto a plane to Tehran. And we'd have toppled THREE enemies at a stroke. 1 - the Iranian mullahs would have been out on their ears. A million Iranian expatriates would be pouring in with western ideas. 2 - Saddam would go next. 3 - The Saudi sheiks would piss in pants. We could tell them "so far - because you are rich and play golf with our aristos - we have let you have BOTH homes in LAs Vegas and Jihad against out civilization. What a deal!" "But now you have to choose between the two." And THAT is the reason Condi Rice never packed W off to Tehran. For the same reason his dad stopped short of Basra. Orders from frat brothers in Riyadh. ===== . . * Please note. My email address of many years is changing FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... (Or else use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
