@Alan B.

Your childlike technological (Lie Detector, etc) imaginings should not extend to numbers of American servicemen who died in Vietnam and World War II.

Where you claim "More young GI's were sacrificed trying to liberate South Vietnam than spent in the totality of WW11!"

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war#Wars_ranked_by_total_number_of_U.S._military_deaths

"Vietnam War.....58,209" US deaths

"World War II...405,399" US deaths

@Alan B. Don't blather on if you can't get your facts right!

Pete

Why did it take the World 5 years to fight two nations ? Why don't so many learn from the past mistakes ?
I tell you why ! Stupidity is a natural phenomenon that is being fostered & enhanced at great expense by Leftist morons in Education !

"Democracy for Iran must be a bipartisan effort"

So you want both political parties in the US to support regime change for Iran

Why?

I don't want to tell Iranians or their government how they should run their country or live their lives.
I don't want to rob their nations resources.
I don't care about Israel, Saudi Arabia or the United States geopolitical interests in the Middle East;

- Like a trail strewn with garbage -

All I care about is Australia.

Iran hasn't done anything wrong to me, but the BS from you and and others like you preventing Iran from selling it's goods to other nations costs me more at the bowser every week.

So right now you're causing me more harm than Iran causes me.

Why do you want unanimous support from both sides to regime change Iran?
America never brings democracy anywhere anyway.
It just occupies nations for the money it makes off war, and then robs those nations either with the help of the military or the puppet rulers it installs.

Why are you intolerant of intolerance?
Did you go to to Camp Tolerance?
http://youtu.be/6vTPjuT3rTA

Before you go promoting regime changes, show me a successful one.
Show me one example of where the US intervened and created a stable independent country where democracy and the installed leaders have been a benefit to the nation and people in question.

[Cont.]
If the author gave a crap about the Iranian people then he'd be supporting US medical sanctions being lifted so they can effectively fight COVID-19.
That's what he'd be saying if he wasn't focused on bipartisan support for regime change.

Which Path To Persia - Options for a new American Strategy Toward Iran
http://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf

"Supporting the development of ever-more advanced communications technology in Iran is perhaps the single greatest threat to that country's religious dictatorship, more than any missile. It has already empowered the Iranian resistance by enabling them to more easily talk and share ideas with each other, as well as to plan activities that the government won't know about until it's too late."

That's definitely advocating regime change.
Just like you did in Ukraine and countless other countries.
Do you think we don't know how you do it?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-backed-techcamp-color-revolution-revealed-by-ukraine-official/5441928

TechCamp Kiev at US Embassy in 2012.
http://youtu.be/bpIoBUDuL3U

Civil Society 2.0
http://2009-2017.state.gov/statecraft/tech/society/index.htm

http://techcamp.america.gov/

[Cont]
Just a note:
The above quoted text was from this authors article, and not from the linked article entitled 'The Path To Persia'.
- Sorry for any confusion.

Slater
> Since the Carter Administration's disastrous decision to undermine the Shah of Iran,
and ttbn
> It certainly was a disastrous decision by hick president Jimmy Carter to undermine the Shah.
But was it actually true?

My understanding is that the Carter Administration did not actively undermine the Shah, but partially withdrew support due to the Shah's failure to comply with human rights standards... and that neither the popular uprising nor the subsequent Islamist coup could have been prevented by the USA acting any differently, let alone sticking to its pre-Carter policy.

Is there any evidence that I'm wrong on this?