War

Syrian rebels, funded and armed by the US through proxies, bombed a bunch children during a cease fire today, but the media doesn't want to report it that way.

Somebody let slip the real reason the US wants to attack Iran.

""One advocate asserts it would be a 'transformative outcome: saving Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, reanimating the peace process, securing the (Persian) Gulf, sending an unequivocal message to Russia and China, and assuring American ascendancy in the region for a decade to come.'" "

It's about power, not security, but frankly I don't see how attacking Iran's nuclear facilities makes the US more powerful in the region. It seems to me it makes us less secure and therefore less powerful. It's going to make Israel less secure, and counterattacks against Israel will weaken Israel too. Over a decade of non-stop war in the Muslim world has cleared weakened the US at home and aboard. I don't see how starting another one can do anything but hurt us.

"And if after months we had smashed Iran as we did Iraq in Desert Storm, would the regime give way to a pro-Western democracy? Or would the result in Iran look like what exists today in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan? "

Don't forget Egypt and Pakistan. You might at as well add Somalia, Tunisia and Mauritania too. And don't forget the anti-American movements in Morocco, Algeria and Sudan, let alone those in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

"Syria is breaking apart into Sunni and Alawite, Arab, Kurd and Druze, Christian and Muslim, Islamist and secular. Afghanistan is dissolving into Tajik and Uzbek in the north, Hazara in the center, and Pashtun in the south and east. Iraq is losing Kurdistan and reverting to civil-sectarian war.
A U.S. defeat of Iran could bring to power revanchists bent on payback through terrorism and propel that half of the population that is Arab, Baluch, Kurd and Azeri to try to break away."

This is one aspect of the decivilizing effect of US aggression on the Middle East, but this never-ending war has had a tremendous decivilizing effect on the US too. Think warrentless wiretaps, TSA, and arresting people for taking pictures of landmarks.