It looks obvious

It seems that we are doing everything to ensure that the war on terror will fail.

The base of the war on terror was the understanding that military actions against the specific terrorist groups will not be enough. The architect of the war understood, correctly, that in order to defeat terrorism you need to change the situation that creates it.

The general understanding was that the Middle Eastern fundamentalist terrorism rooted in lack of hope. The Middle Eastern regimes offered no hope for better future and as survival method channeled the anger and hate toward the west. Therefore the operational goal of the campaign in Iraq was, as partially declared, to bring democracy to the Iraqi people. Regardless the feasibility of such goal, if succeed in Iraq it was hoped to have a ripple effect on the entire region.

But it seems that we did not learn from the past and we still believe in the old phrase: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. However, even if following this phrase – we should define our enemy, and our friends. Our enemies aren’t Ahmadinejad or Sadam Husain but the dictatorship and oppression they represent. Topple them; just to replace them with Tiran friendlier to the US, will not help us to achieve the goals of the war.

Link: Iranian Exile Group Aims to Build Bridges

The Mujahedeen-e Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, was formally listed as a terrorist group by the State Department because of its attacks on American military personnel and Iranian officials. It fiercely opposed the Shah and his supporters during the 1970s and allied with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his 1980-88 war against Iran.

But today, the MEK and its supporters say the organization should be supported by the Bush administration as part of a broader effort to promote regime change in Tehran. They say the group has developed among the most-sophisticated intelligence operations covering Iran’s leadership and nuclear operations, and it has networks inside Iran that can spread propaganda on democracy and on the need to remove the mullahs. The MEK also has 4,000 fighters that can target Iran from Iraq, though they have been demobilized by U.S. military commanders and held in a kind of house arrest.