>I'd feel awful because my government would have let me down. But I don't have to feel that way, do I?
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>A few bombs and blockades just might cause a revolution there.

Not in this universe. The 1999 bombing just bought Miloshevich another year - he would have been gone that summer, but he got this gift from the sky. The people who were sleeping just about anywhere but home so they couldn't be found to receive invitations into one of his wars, now volunteered. The opposition parties tacitly agreed to not attack the government too much as long as this lasted, unless it was about the misconduct of defense, but then the defense worked better than expected.

You just don't want to give Ahmedinejad such a chance to have a "I told you so" moment.