Ex Air Force official and "Fox News analyst" via WSJ pushes for regime change in Iran

[sabra]

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2154/US_Papers_Friday_Tensions_Escalate

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Unbelievable: Against the backdrop of escalating UK-Iran tensions, Thomas McInerny, ex- Air Force official and Fox News analyst, contributes an op-ed to the Journal suggesting that the US exploit Iran’s ethnic diversity in a bid to bring down the Islamic Republic. US airpower, combined with support for ethnic minority militias could collapse the regime, he argues. In fact, this policy will tear apart the state of Iran and create one more ungovernable disaster zone, sandwiched between two others in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Iran Escalates
By Thomas G. McInerney
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President Reagan once famously quipped that his strategy in confronting the Soviet Union was "We win, they lose." Today, we need a similarly clear strategy to confront Iran, if we are to successfully counter its aim to drive the U.S. from the Middle East and -- as we see with the 15 British sailors the Iranians have taken hostage -- attempts to intimidate Western powers into inaction.

That strategy begins not with the Kabuki dance now underway at the United Nations. Turtle Bay is usually, and seems destined to be again in this case, a diplomatic sideshow meant more to ...

[Dr.Phool]

1. That same strategy worked so well in Iraq.....

It'll work like a charm in Iran.

Why is impeachment off the table?

[PDJane]

2. Perhaps the most important regime change

Would start with the current administration, including an overhaul of the Pentagon and the rise of a truly free press.

[Selatius]

3. There aren't enough US troops to occupy Iran, and bombing Iran will only inspire nationalism.

They may or may not overthrow the Mullahs because they hate them as it is. Even if they did, the government that replaces them will STILL BE hostile to the US government.