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Firstly, if I can digress with an introductory Thomas Jefferson quote: "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
What authoritarian governments fear most is their loss in maintaining and perpetuating power. Fear, once it takes hold of an individual or a dictatorship in this case, is not easily assuaged. It tunnels deep into the primal brain and stimulates terrible imaginations, which inevitably cascade into real life horrors. The clumsy and authoritarian meanderings of the Mullahs have confirmed unequivocally that Iran is a rogue nation with little capacity for reason or goodwill (especially to its own citizenry).
Perhaps the biggest winner of this act of self-immolation in the public arena is Israel. Having hectored endlessly and hysterically this past decade over the unstable nature of the Mullahs, one can only cede the Likudist crowd a few points here. What this does to Obama's Mideast peace plans and regional stability are unknowns.
Unfortunately Ken Pollock and the rest of the so-called establishment Middle East experts have already been asked what they think. The average 3-year old would at least give a more honest answer; that being they don't know, but these partisans exist only to dissemble and divulge disinformation.
What authoritarian governments fear most is their loss in maintaining and perpetuating power. Fear, once it takes hold of an individual or a dictatorship in this case, is not easily assuaged. It tunnels deep into the primal brain and stimulates terrible imaginations, which inevitably cascade into real life horrors. The clumsy and authoritarian meanderings of the Mullahs have confirmed unequivocally that Iran is a rogue nation with little capacity for reason or goodwill (especially to its own citizenry).
Perhaps the biggest winner of this act of self-immolation in the public arena is Israel. Having hectored endlessly and hysterically this past decade over the unstable nature of the Mullahs, one can only cede the Likudist crowd a few points here. What this does to Obama's Mideast peace plans and regional stability are unknowns.
Unfortunately Ken Pollock and the rest of the so-called establishment Middle East experts have already been asked what they think. The average 3-year old would at least give a more honest answer; that being they don't know, but these partisans exist only to dissemble and divulge disinformation.
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