The people of Iran, who are by far not a majority of hard line muslims, have been trying to throw off the mullahs for decades.They recently tried again, and were slaughtered in droves. Iran, at one time, before the beginning of shreckless foreign policy, was relatively modern, relatively free, and relatively peaceful. The same applies to Afghanistan, which, unlike Iran, was wrecked by direct invasion by an evil nation.
You cannot free a people unwilling to fight and die for liberty, as seen in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whether Iran will be different or not remains to be seen.
Iran, under the mullahs, has been a massive sponsor of terrorism, funded by the stupidity of some of the shreckless foreign policy of the U.S. They have been attempting to foment unrest and war all over the middle east, and when possible, all over the world. As the rest of the middle east becomes more modern, desiring peace and prosperity rather than hate and strife, the radicals and hard liners have become a small minority, and the rest are getting sick and tired of the suffering and misery.
I see this as an opportunity to help some more peaceful people become free again, and remove a cancer eating away at the world, at the same time. I also see this conflict as unavoidable, eventually, something was going to happen.
