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Originally Posted by jammies
Yes, if your "help" would cause more problems than it would solve. The USA coming out in support of the protesters would do nothing except polarize the situation even further, and give the hardliners in the government a propaganda victory.
This is not a fight between the West and Islam, so don't make it into such a fight, especially when this is a fight the West would lose. The USA cannot afford to go into Iran and impose their views by fiat, so the best they could do would be to arm the insurgents. Those insurgents would then lose much of their popular support, because the average person in Iran dislikes and distrusts America for solid historical reasons. Now you all have done is start a civil war where you are on the side of the minority. Does that sound like sound foreign policy to you?
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Yeah, but on the other hand if you can secretly encourage a civil war in Iran it would sure drop the governments extreme thought processes to merely surviving for a few years.
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