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Entry: Regime Change Redux Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/regime_change_redux#7612 Post contents: I think Mr. Smith overestimates the power of the neo-cons and their allies. Certainly they are powerful, but if they were as powerful as Mr. Smith seems to think, why has not Iran been attacked already? In both February and September of this year, there were strong indications that an imminent attack was averted by an actual or threatened (which amounts to the same thing) passive mutiny by high ranking armed services personnel. There are those who think that the attack will take place on the verge of the '08 election to insure a Republican victory or to provide an excuse to cancel the election altogether. The former rationale is both doubtful and unnecessary. The neo-cons have influence in both parties and don't need the republicans in power. And actually cancelling the election would powerfully destabilize the neo-cons' home power base in the US. Why would they want to do that? Sent at: 2008 05 16