Perhaps it's a "radical revolutionary" idea not to want a fairly large country on your western border to be shaped by the guidance of an extremely foreign enemy country. But I still don't see why that's so. It's easy to characterize Iran as a country that doesn't want peace in Iraq when you define "peace" as a situation which Iran legitimately sees as dangerous and destabilizing to its own country.
It has always baffled me why more people don't see this. Imagine, if you can, that a foreign, hostile power had invaded and occupied Mexico. Then, imagine that the same hostile power invaded and occupied Canada. (Beutler understates the situation Iran faces. We've invaded the countries on both their western eastern borders) How would the US respond? Would we sit passively while they turn the state into a threat, or would we act both covertly and overtly to block their efforts? If the answer isn't obvious to you, swap Mexico for Cuba and everything should become clear.
For god's sake, we invaded Grenada to prevent a hostile take-over by a foreign power And yet Iran is supposed to sit idly by and do nothing?
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