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They’ll be throwing flowers on the streets of Tehran

From Seymour M. Hersh’s article in this week’s New Yorker:”The immediate goals of the attacks would be to destroy, or at least temporarily derail, Iran�s ability to go nuclear. But there are other, equally purposeful, motives at work. The government consultant told me that the hawks in the Pentagon, in private discussions, have been urging a limited attack on Iran because they believe it could lead to a toppling of the religious leadership. �Within the soul of Iran there is a struggle between secular nationalists and reformers, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the fundamentalist Islamic movement,� the consultant told me. �The minute the aura of invincibility which the mullahs enjoy is shattered, and with it the ability to hoodwink the West, the Iranian regime will collapse��like the former Communist regimes in Romania, East Germany, and the Soviet Union. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz share that belief, he said.”After reading the above, the simple question is: Do these guys ever learn?