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Changing beliefs can prove difficult.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
In THE NEW AMERICAN'S October 28 issue, TNA commented about the increasing neo-conservative calls to attack Iran: "Although the initial selling point to the party faithful is that Iran's WMD capabilities must be taken out because of the potential threat posed to Israel and America, the war plans are morphing into much grander objectives, starting with 'regime change.' (Where have we heard that before?)" Regime change is a losing proposition.
We don't need even to leave our own continent to see firsthand the results of forcing a regime change on an unwilling people. An analogy can be made, I believe, with our own "War Between the States," whose final days in the 1860s included General Sherman's infamous "March to the Sea" and the total devastation of all lying in the path of his army--lives, homes, and the means of livelihood with the destruction of crops and cattle.
Declaring themselves victors, the North then sent reconstructionists into the South to help the Southerners out of their defeated state and to remedy their way of thinking (change their commercial and religious beliefs, actually). It didn't work. It took more than 100 years ...
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