i want to clarify that a full scale invasion of iran is probably a bad idea. well, almost. there are ways to do this. the turks, for example, could lead a nato force into iran. american or european troops would generate the worst kind of backlash, and potentially undo any tentative gains made over the last few years of massive street protest against the tyrannical regime in place.

i would, however, support taking out iranian leaders of all and any sort (it would be a good day for the world if they could take out mr. khamenei) and would tentatively support providing air cover for key groups that the american military almost certainly wouldn't provide air cover for. kurdistan could be due for some major growth. the kurds are a broadly more tolerant style of governance (that's the real reason the turks hate them), and a bigger, deeper kurdish toehold in iran could be enough to get those dominos falling, without doing things that are counterproductive. there's enough people in iran that want out of the islamic state governing model that a parallel state could get some traction, if it can get up and going.

i mean, the other idea is carpet bombing, and that kind of sucks. i'm ultimately in solidarity with secular, socialist and democratic (and white. let's be honest.) groups struggling against the mullahs (and the arabic colonialism in the area). i don't want to blow up iran. i do, however, think that (unlike iraq, which was a brutal secular dictatorship keeping the fundies in check at the butt of a machine gun because it had to, as we witnessed), iran might appreciate some help liberating it, if it's done the right way.