US in Iran ?

[news.independent.co.uk]

One former defence official is quoted as saying the planning was based on a belief that “a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government”.

London Blitz.

Berlin 1945.

Iraq, quite recently, really.

It doesn’t work like that, guys. I wish you’ld do some history. All that is necessary if for the government which you are bombing to hand out free bread and food, and blame the hardship on the people doing the bombing.

Frankly that’s pretty easy to do.

All this the people will rise up against nonsense… doesn’t it sound terribly communist propaganda?

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  1. Dave Walker
    re: US in Iran ?

    In addition to London and Berlin, add “Vietnam, 1957-75”. I’d have thought that many senior US defence officials would remember this one, without needing to either read about it or discuss it with folk of a previous generation.

    About the only time that a bombing campaign can be considered to have resulted in accelerated capitulation involves Japan in 1945 – and even this didn’t involve any kind of “popular uprising”.

    Whose history books are the folk who come out with quotes like this reading?

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