It would be wonderful to avoid another all out military intervention. If Iraq can pacify itself with our aid, the attention will be focused on Tehran. There will be far more pressure on it's government for their abysmal failures. There will be no outlet for their fanatic's violence and their secularists have just about had it with the current government's oppression. I mean, imagine a gas producing nation where you can't buy gas? Way to go, ahmadinejad...loser.
The author nails the point on the problem with foreign fighters. If Iranian soldiers can't infiltrate into Iraqi society to cause terror because the locals are no longer hostile, those locals are going to have time to remember who their tribal enemies are. they are going to look over the border. Iran will have "an insurgency" of it's own to deal with.
A weakened Tehran will be ill equipped to resist it's secularists. They may last a while, but not too long. The potential to topple Tehran with it's own secularist population grows with each success in Iraq.
Then it would fall to those who reside in the 21st century in Iran to bring the rest of the country with them.
The possibility of undoing all of Democrat Jimmy Carter's damage after all these years is too great to resist.
It would be a great day when the mistakes of 4 years of Jimah Carter are finally corrected.
Too bad it'll take 30+ years to do it....
Iran was a true ally of the United States for many years. In my younger days, I knew many Iranians, under the Shah they were encouraged to go to the west for education and to adopt western business and cultural models.
Of all the countries in the mideast, I’m inclined to think that the greatest hope for western ideals is Iran and Lebanon.