HOW TO LEVERAGE A RELATIONSHIP OF MISTRUST!
The tension between Ahmadinejad and leadership of Khamenei
has been a topic of mine on many of occasions.
What I find interesting time and time again, is the Iranian
government's inability to hide this obvious split.
The Persian Nationalist and the Islamic Fundamentalist both
have visions of Iran 's
future that simply do not match.
Again, none of this is new to the rest of the world, so why
hasn't someone or some group tried to leverage this tension to destabilize Iran ?
One issue that has always worried me is the consistent
mistake by the West to categories everyone who is in the Middle
East as the same pot of Islamic Radicals.
It just makes their lives easier when they refer to
everything that goes on in the region as, "Those Arabs" or "
Those Muslims"..
For all the talking heads who appear on cable TV you would
think someone would hold the theory of playing these two Iranian egomaniacs
against each other... or better yet.. you would think someone in the GCC would
figure out what it takes to get these two coming to blows.
Now, as I have talked about in the past, Ahmadinejad doesn't
own much in the way of military support; practically nothing is the real
answer.
But, I still don't give up on my theory that Ahmadinejad
could create tension far more than most people realize.
His time grows short and his "keepers" are
standing on top of his every move, as this story indicates, but has anyone even
tried to take advantage of this complicated conflicted relationship?
Would it work?
Who knows!
The more important question is, why don't we give it a try?
Oh ya.. The sanctions!!!!
Is that a tool under executed in this potential plan?
Someone remind me again... what is the strategic
"plan" behind the sanctions?
Does anyone really have a "plan" fro dealing with Iran ????
My opinion..... We are missing an opportunity to at least
take a shot of disrupting Iran 's
leadership without having to wage a regional war.
Just my two cents worth.
