Islamic Revolution of Iran has Outlived its Shelf-Life

Fire of Liberty

For several months I've been reading countless stories about how Iran's new "Dictator and Chief" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been going around the country strutting like a chicken and making inflamatory statements about how Iran will reprocess as much uranium as it wants and damn the IAEA, Europe, US, and the UN, that Israel should be wiped off the map, that the holocaust ever occurred, all in an effort to stir up some more street cred with the Islamists Revolutionaries. As I've noted before, the government in Iran has got to keep playing up to his base because they have basically lost the under 30 crowd in Iran (They make up some 65 percent of the Iranian public) who have pretty much wiped their hands free of the mullahs and are more pro-American and freedom loving.

Now there's no doubt in my mind that Ahmadinejad and his higher ups would love nothing better than to erase Israel off the map but I'm thinking that he's doing this to spark the US or Israel to launch an attack on their nuclear sites to ignite a "rally-round-the-flag" moment amongst the people. While I wouldn't disagree with the Israeli military launching an attack on the Iranians based on self-defense because of it going "red-hot" with the development of nukes or because of the mullah's current support of terrorists like Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, I'd think the US would caution against this because of our situation in Iraq. Though I highly doubt Israel will launch an attack on Iran ala the takedown of the Osirak reactor in 1980's Iraq, it's always good that there is a thought in the back of the minds of the mullahs that Israel would do what it has to do when its hand is forced.

I'm more inclined to say that our folks at the CIA, State, Defense, NSC and the White House, Congress and various other entities can solve a lot of problems for us in the region by doing what Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan did throughout the Cold War, which is to offer and provide the moral/political/economic support for the freedom loving and truly democratic groups within Iran. If we step up like the Cold War Triad did in the 80's, we can finally wipe away the stain of Iran that has been around since the Ayatollahs were swept into power by their fellow Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979. (You know these mullahs are pretty horrific, when they quickly killed off and imprisoned all the folks that helped them assume the laurels of power.) So our best bet is to push the people of Iran, who go to the streets almost everyday calling for freedom and democracy, forward in a democratic revolution thus removing Ahmadinejad and his fellow revolutionaries from their thrones. From the angry rebukes that Iranian dictator Ahmadinejad has gotten from Europe, he might be on his way to burning down the only bridges that have kept the mullachracy going so far. If they lose Europe then all bets are off for the current regime surviving in the near future. I'll say more on this in the near future.