re: #311 Sergey Romanov

Yes! I know. That’s one of the reasons I’m wary of the outright invasion. Even the air attacks will do that, but that would be the necessary evil. They might get over it.

One of the best people I know is an Iranian engineer (living in Duesseldorf). He’s totally anti-Ayatollah/anti-Dinnerjacket, but he’s pro nuclear atomic stations. I don’t know where his sympathies would lie in the case of air strikes, and I wouldn’t blame him anyway. But what needs to be done needs to be done.

My boss is an Iranian ex-pat, came over in ‘73, but still has family back there. And in our discussions over the years, it’s become clear that he A) supported the ideals of the Revolution, but not the end product, B) hates the government there now but supports his country, and C) blames the current hostility totally on the government. I’ve not asked him how he’d respond to US aerial strikes, but I get the impression that folks back home would not see the US as some sort of “good guy.”