When you read headlines like this one, you have to wonder if the careerist-dominated Department of State is pushing for a replay of
Iran, 1978 or
South Vietnam, 1963.
Standing behind the lawyer pictured below --whether that lawyer and his allies know it or not, and whether they care or not-- are
jihadist takfiris on the one side and
Khomeiniest meddlers on the other. The U.S. under Presidents Carter and Kennedy wished for a better alternative than what they had, and ended up with far, far worse. This time the troubling ally has nukes.