Why is the US not agressively pursuing regime change???
This is one area in which the US should be particularly aggressive..thanks to Shameer for sending me this link.
The former director of President Bush's flagship democracy program for the Middle East is saying that the State Department has "effectively killed" a program to disburse millions of dollars to Iran's liberal opposition.
In an interview yesterday, Scott Carpenter said a recent decision to move the $75 million annual aid program for Iranian democrats to the State Department's Office of Iranian Affairs would effectively neuter an initiative the president had intended to spur democracy inside the Islamic Republic.
"In my view, this pretty much kills the Iran democracy program," Mr. Carpenter said of the decision by the State Department to subsume the program. "There is not the expertise, there is not the energy for it. The Iran office is worried about the bilateral policy. I think they are not committed to this anymore."
posted by GayandRight @ 2:55 PM
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Why is it the US that always has to be the one trying to spur change? Don't you think that the EU has far more to worry about regarding a nuclear-armed Iran than the US does?
The US economy is taking a brutal beating... as much as they'd like to see regime change in Iran they just can't afford to be spending that kind of money on it. It's time countries like France, England, and the like shoulder the burden... since they're the ones that would be directly affected.
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