MM

Salam az bandeh ast MM Jan

Actually John The Crazy Bolton has been advocating TOTAL WAR on Iran as Mr. Ledeen and his cohorts all along.

These people should be put on trial for illegal war against Iraq and murder of millions, along side with their puppets G W BUSH, Puppet master DICK Chaney and the rest.

Micheal Ledeen is a sociopath who is hell bent in making another Iraq out of Iran. To think for one single moment that this Psychopathic maniac has the good of people of Iran in is heart is utter simplicity. Just look at what he said about the history's bloodiest war [8 year Iran-Iraq War] in his recent article:

[It’s easy when the enemies aren’t even human, but in cases of human conflict we invariably take sides.  Mostly we see conflicts as “us vs. them.”  If Schmoe and Einstein were fighting to the death, we’d pick
one and root for him.  Right?

Well, not always.  It’s not so simple. Lots of us didn’t take sides in the Iran-Iraq war, for example.  I, for one, rooted for the war.]

//pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2010/03/02/w...

-YT 

hello cap - I think there may be a new neo-con strategy brewing

The bunch you described are better known as the neo-cons.  What Michael Ledeen and Richard Haass described in their latest speeches, vis-a-vis, help to the people of Iran as a strategy for a change in Iran, is a far departure from their previous positions, going as far as surgical strikes and Israeli intervension.  That was the whole premise of my blog.

The totally nut-case, John Bolton, had even called for surgical nuclear strikes against Iran. 

Michael Ledeen

Michael Ledeen is "a former employee of the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council.

As a consultant working with NSC head Robert McFarlane, he was involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair -- an adventure that he documented in the book Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair. His most influential book is last year's [2002] The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.

"Ledeen's ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Richard Cheney, Donald H. Rumsfeld and Paul Dundes Wolfowitz.

His views virtually define the stark departure from American foreign
policy philosophy that existed before the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. He
basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of
democracy is America's manifest destiny. Consequently, he has become the philosophical legitimator of the American occupation of Iraq."

Ledeen also has called for "regime change beyond Iraq" and believes that it is also "time for a free Iran, free Syria and free Lebanon.'

//www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Ledeen#.22Total_War.22_Advocate

-YT 

So, Michael Ledeen also says d US should help d people of Iran

Vildemouse,

Thanks for the video link to Michael Ledeen's speech  (//www.heritage.org/press/events/ev030210a.cfm).  I watched the whole speech and the questions cession.  Although I did not like some of his cultural remarks, it seems like Michael Ledeen, as with Richard Haass, thinks that the US should help the people of Iran.

So, maybe this is more than a Richard Haass'opinion, but rather a collective conclusion from the council on foreign relations and maybe even the Heritage foundation.  If more scholars from the last two institutions come up with the same opinion, we will know for sure.

Michael Ledeen was more specific in terms of the kinds of help that the US could provide to the people of Iran.  And, it basically involved improvement in communications such as computer software, ways of getting over censorship and satellite phones. 

CoP - You have a good point

Richard Haass did not elaborate how this help would be.  This help could be indirect as in drying up the sources of income of the regime which gives IRI its power base such as freezing IRI & sepaah assets abroad, oil-related or else.  That is why I posted his email address so that at the end of the day we can let him know what our collective thoughts are here at IC.

Interesting lecture on fascism and IRI

Michael A. Ledeen
Author

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
The Heritage Foundation

Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium

Michael A. Ledeen
Author

James Phillips
Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs,
The Heritage Foundation

Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium

//www.heritage.org/press/events/ev030210a.cfm

I'm all for this but

doesn't this give ammunition to the mullahs and their brainwashed supporters (here and elsewhere) to accuse "foriegn interference" as the driving factor for change and not the brutality of 31 years of religious enema? 

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IRAN FIRST

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Yes Bavafa, let's hope VF takes note & stops killing d innocent

My guess is that once these guys with reesh-pashm see that the end is near, the change-over will happen fast.

SP: I left a couple of spelling mistakes for you to come in and comment on.

Its about time for some

Its about time for some voice of reason and forward looking policy making in US.

Mehrdad