Instead of the CIA constantly picking the wrong side and overthrowing the wrong governments, including our own in 2020, maybe they should concentrate on Iran. There are plenty of smart Persians who would love to overthrow their 6th century cult overlords. Do something right for a change. Unfortunately the State Dept is 100% on the side of jihadis.
“ There are plenty of smart Persians who would love to overthrow their 6th century cult overlords”
Ah, the siren song of the neocon.
You are a judge of Persian public opinion? You have sufficient data about what “plenty of people” over there want to commit troops?
We heard these lies in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and in Libya. No more.
Never again.
Correct
I know a few educated successful ones with family still there and they tell me that 75%+ of the population would much prefer a secular modern state but that the current apparatus is entrenched and brutal enough to keep people from risking it