Comment by scythe

>Calling Iranians who are against their current government “morally compromised” is real reprehensible for someone sitting in an armchair.

What I said was that anyone who wants their country to meet the fate of other countries the US has attempted to regime change is morally compromised. Simply hoping that the Islamic regime will go away is completely rational. Knowing that it will definitely fail and wanting to try it anyway is insanity.

And the diaspora fools cheering for more bombs and destruction are also in armchairs. They have no sympathy from me.

>Hoping foreign power can help overthrow the domestic lord is nothing new. That’s literally how the U.S. gained its independence with French military assistance.

Not regime change, a rebellion.

>And to your point, US interventions saved South Korea, Kuwait, Grenada, Bosnia, in addition to Panama.

South Korea was a response to invasion, Kuwait was a response to invasion, Grenada was a coup (response to a coup — edge case because the end state was much easier to define and also the country is minuscule), Bosnia was a rebellion. None of these are regime change.

>Kurds in Iraq can attest to this.

Also a rebellion. You might want to recheck the criteria.

>We don’t know how Iraq and Venezuela will turn out in the current timeline either.

23 years of civil war is too many. You can't just say "well eventually it worked out", that could justify anything. Other dictatorships have ended faster without violence. Venezuela was not a real regime change war because a deal was made with the VP before the invasion and also the Bolivarians are still in power.