If Bibi and TSF "take out" Ayatollah Khomeini and his government in Iran,

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6. "As much as the current Iranian regime is noxious, it could be worse."

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And it will be worse, rest assured. Much, much worse.

If we've proven nothing else since we first decided to go chest deep into the raw sewage of the Middle East decades ago it's that we absolutely suck at nation building there. By and large, we are NOT seen as fair and unbiased actors by the overwhelming majority of the people there, let alone as the benevolent, boundlessly heroic, generous agents of democracy that our government undoubtedly sees itself as. If we're not instituting regime change to safeguard ours and the West's oil supply in the region, we're handing blank check after blank check to a nation they see (rightly or wrongly) as their mortal enemy.

The saddest part of all is that, given enough time, the people of Iran of their own accord would probably rid themselves of the Ayatollah's and the early-medieval theocracy they've shackled the Iranian people and nation to. However, if we destroy their nation, if we humiliate them on the world stage and impose some half-a$$ed puppet regime on them, they will never forgive us.

Iran was once a democracy, until the CIA helped to orchestrate a coup against its democratically elected prime minister (Mohammad Mossadegh) in 1953 because we didn't like the cut of his Socialist jib. Instead, we foisted the tyranny of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the Iranian people which eventually produced the 1979 Islamic Revolution....and gee, look at how wonderful that worked out for us.

How to radicalize a population over several generations and make permanent enemies 101. It's a class we've been masterfully teaching since the 1950s. Too bad we haven't learned anything.