Timothy Birdnow

American Thinker has an article today discussing what victory will have to look like, and I think the author is right.

It won't involve an uprising by the Iranian People, but it will involve getting the Iranian Mullah-ocracy to beat feet and go into exile before they go broke and/or the Americans get them.

The author cites two examples - Bashir in Syria, who lied about Russian military aid coming then flew the coop for Russia, and Khadaffi in Libya who tried to go to a friendly territory to wait it out and got caught by French aircraft. Either solution involves making the Mullahs split the scene.

And split the scene they just might. As is pointed out, these mullahs are in the mullah - lots of it. They are the richest people in Iran, all acquired from ill-gotten gain. They are not going to go back to riding asses; they prefer sitting on theirs. So what they may try to do is run while they can, taking their money with them. They aren't liking the economic squeze being put on them at all, and they might just head for greener pastures.

I think this is correct. The People are beaten down and fearful after 40,000 protesters were killed by the junta. But if we make the Mullahs fear the reaper and worse, being broke, they may well decide they would like the cool climate of Russia with their pale and lovely Devusha Uneya Pedi's (young ladies) they will have working as servant girls (and probable concubines).

What we are doing is trying to drive out a religious class which is deeply entrenched. This approach MAY work if these 12ers think they will be able to return in a few years. If not they will go down fighting. But what other option do we have? We don't want to send in the Seals or Delta force or any other troops. We need to resolve this through air power and economic pressure. Money is always Man's god, and while the Mullahs may worship Allah they also have a fondness for the coins.

It's hard to dislodge religious fanatics. But I think it can be done if we make them poor enough and endanger their lives. People are great at rationalizing. And they might want to die for Allah in some spectacular fashion (like a suicide bomb) but to die in a bunker underground is something nobody wants. I think they will leave if they can. We need to make it relatively easy for them to find asylum in some other country.

If we pressure other countries to not take them we would be making a mistake; right now we need them out. Later we can hunt them down, but at the moment we need to offer them a golden bridge of escape, as Sun Tzu called it. We can get them later, lie the Soviets got Trotsky in Mexico (maybe not poke an icepick into their heads though.)

Anyway I believe we can win this, but we have to have some fortitude and understand what is at stake. Steak for us, grasshoppers for them, that's what should be at stake.

On that note Chow...

Posted by: Mike at September 08, 2026 08:55 PM (ZvUv3)

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