While Amil Imani’s policy suggestions may make sense from an Iranian-American viewpoint, they make NO sense from an American-American viewpoint. America has been following policies aligned with his suggestions for longer than most Americans have been alive.
America backed the principal opponent of the “[t]he religious fanatics steering the Islamic Republic” during the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussien, for eight years. Our ally killed, on the order of half a million Iranians. That wasn’t enough to topple the mullahs, so we threw him under the bus and switched our allegiance to the House of Saud, who have spent $100 billion spreading their version of Islam, Salafism, around the world.
Two Gulf Wars later have left the region with Iran as the principal regional power and Iraq as their vassal, at the cost of several trillion dollars and millions of lives. As our twenty-year-long experience of leading the Afghans from the Taliban to the Taliban amply demonstrates, the uniparty’s foreign policy consistently places American interests last, if they are considered at all.
It’s time for Americans to focus on America and let the rest of the world solve their problems on their own.
