I am not yet at the point where I reliably dream of blogging – it has happened, terrifyingly enough, but not on a regular basis – but the shower is turning into a useful place to think of possible posts. Of course, I’m more of a linker than a thinker, so I mostly let them pass because I’m off to work later, but weekends are a different story. So, two questions on Iran.
1). Someone taps you on the shoulder and informs you that the United States of America is prepared to change its policy on Iran in any one way, based on your input. What would you change right now*, and why?
Yes, yes, you would first immediately either expel or guarantee the re-election of the current administration, thank you, that has to wait for November either way and the question was about what to change right now.
2). Let us postulate that you will wake up tomorrow to find that you are the President of the United States (no, you don’t have to be George W Bush), and that reports are coming in that a popular uprising has begun against the current theocracy in Iran. The rebels are secular, pro-democracy, have broad support from the populace but not much in the way of heavy weapons and are at least neutral towards the United States; indeed, there is already a widespread belief that the CIA was behind it all (in this case, you know that it was not). The consensus at the UN is rapidly hardening in favor of the existing regime, particularly as said regime is suddenly ready to sign all sorts of nonproliferation agreements in exchange for public support.
Do you support the rebellion, or not?
Moe