Foreign Affairs

was smoking the really good stuff - in quantities.
A hardening of position - and corresponding solidification of power - were the absolutely predictable ...

And - any marginally credible analyst or middle-east observer would have told you that in advance. Had anybody bothered to listen. Yes, there are lots of people unhappy with the Iran government - today, yesterday, even last year. But ... Bombing the crap out of them doesn't provide any impetus ... And most probably sets back any potential internal movement - by years if not decades.