…in Syria?
We should have been seeking regime change in both Syria and Iran for the past decade. They (not Israel) are the primary bad actors in the region. I thought in fact that this was the longer-term goal of removing Saddam, but apparently the Bush administration was much less strategically competent than I thought.
Or got scared off by the intensity of the savage reaction of the Progressive Left to the relatively easy removal of an evil thug like Saddam Hussein.
Eh. Ninety percent of Muslim institutions (including in the US) are Wahhabi-controlled, and we know where the 9/11 plotters and hijackers came from, geographically and ideologically. The one good thing about the Iranian regime is that it frightens the Saudis. When it’s gone, there will be nothing to distract them from their designs to destroy the West. There are no quick solutions here.
When the Iranian regime is gone, we will no longer have any reason to continue coddling the Wahabbist regime in Arabia. If we also wind up with democratic secular governments in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Iraq, then a newly democratic and secularized iran will only help isolate the morality police in Arabia and the Arabian people will finally get the gumption to rise up.