The Delusions and Lies of Regime Changers

Supporters of regime change in Iran are as deluded and ignorant as ever.

Supporters of regime change in Iran are as deluded and ignorant as ever:

What made post-Saddam Iraq a disaster was not regime change itself, but the Islamic Republic’s calculated decision to make it one—by flooding Iraq with militias, hijacking its politics, and turning it into a proxy battlefield to expel U.S. forces and further dominate the region. The idea that the same scenario would unfold in Iran ignores two important facts: first, the country’s vastly different societal dynamics, and second, the lack of any external power capable of doing to Iran what Iran did to Iraq. Regime change in Iran would eliminate the source of the chaos, not unleash it.

It is telling that supporters of regime change in Iran have to engage in such absurd revisionism about post-invasion Iraq. The U.S. destroyed the Iraqi state and disbanded its military, and U.S. forces occupied Iraq after having illegally invaded it. Those were the chief causes of post-invasion chaos and violence. Iran took advantage of the chaos that the U.S. created to pursue its own goals, but claiming that Iran was the main culprit for post-invasion conflict and instability is preposterous. Claiming that regime change in Iran will somehow be stabilizing is even more ridiculous and dishonest.