Let's Attack Iran!!

After the President's saber-rattling speech about Iran this week, I heard Joe Scarborough (the former Republican Representative from FL who quit when a female assistant was found dead in his office) and Pat Buchanan talking about how pleased "the American People" would be with an attack on Iran.

As a Jackleg operating an obscure Thinktank in rural Kentucky, I do not presume to speak for "the American People," but I can say that I think Joe and Pat must think we, "the American People," either have short memories or are feeble-minded, or both.

I remember that our own CIA, under the leadership of the Dulles brothers, deposed a leader in Iran to install Shah Reva Pahlavi as our man in Teheran. He did not play very nicely with his fellow Iranians, but got very rich along with his British and American friends. When he was deposed by the Muslim radicals in 1979, many Iranians remained friends of "the American People" in spite of the problems between their government and ours. Not speaking for "the American People,' I would still assert that we could win more friends and influence the kind of government Iranians have in the future by being more moderate in our relations with Iranians and the present Iranian government.