My dad is from Iran, so I'll just post my thoughts. He came to the US in 1977. He had lived in the US for a mere 2 years before his country evaporated from the face of the earth and was replaced (with the help of the US) with a breeding ground for evangelical Muslims. Ahmadinajad has absolutely no power, it is the religious supreme leaders who control everything. It's like a Big-brother socialism except replace "Big-brother" with the word "Allah", and the poor secular Irans (a good chunk of the minority, as I understand it) can't do a damn thing about it.
Imagine that there is a country on this earth more powerful than the USA and they use their secret agencies to install evangelical leaders in every corner of the US government. OK, if you are a conspiracy theorist, you might think that is what actually happened in 2000. But it really did happen for Iran.
So it didn't come as much of a surprise when one of my Dad's friends, also born and raised Iranian, said "Go ahead and attack! The Iranians will turn tail and run!" But that friend of ours has been living in the US for some 30 years, it is possible that he has no clue about how strong anti-US sentiment is amongst Muslims.
I don't believe that we should attack. Attacking another country middle-eastern country, even if it were somewhat justified, would not help improve the current situation at all.
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(By the way, it's all in your head.) |