Ahmedinacrazyguy is facing a good deal of civil unrest in his country, completely free of agitation by CIA officers on the ground in Iran.
They are protesting in the streets, and the military is keeping a semblance of not-completely-gone-to-sh#t for the cameras. I have just one thing to say to the protesters:
I stand behind you and your efforts to obtain liberty for yourselves and your posterity, but I do not envy your position. America has a shameful tradition of behaving like Egypt was alleged to do quite some time ago: We'll leave you to swing in the breeze. In Vietnam: we won and left. We made promises to return and help, then welshed on our word and the South was overrun by the Communists. In Iraq: we smashed the Iraqi army out of their neighbors' house, and let the Iraqi opposition think we had their backs. Then we left Hussein in power and they were all killed or "disappeared," just as we could have known would happen.
Now you have people who are plainly standing in opposition to a tyrant in Iran with the military on his side. Well, it's been nice knowing you. Good luck with that whole staying alive thing.
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