This episode takes the best of those ideas seriously. Not the strawman versions, but one of the strongest ideas out there: airdropping weapons to Iranians so they could rise up and overthrow the regime themselves. It's a clever idea. It's also wrong, and we'll walk through exactly why.

Along the way... Three reasons arms were never dropped, what Friedrich Hayek, Richard Maybury, and Harry Browne would say about why government interventions fail, and BRAND NEW! - the "Tax-Funded Midas Curse" — a concept that explains why this failure was baked in from the start.

NOTES & RESOURCES

WarTruth.org - the history of U.S. Gov foreign interventions: https://wartruth.org/

TruthAboutWar.org - predicting the problems with the Iraq War: https://truthaboutwar.org/home.shtml

CHAPTERS

0:00 Prefer regime change

0:35 Theme

0:48 It wasn't done right

2:02 Regime change air ball

6:16 Dropping arms to the people

11:06 Why arms weren't dropped

13:26 Allied vs liberated Iran

15:50 Best laid plans

18:58 TruthAboutWar and WarTruth dot org

27:03 Let's pretend, the fatal conceit

28:28 Let's pretend, Chaostan

31:01 Let's pretend, the dictator fallacy

33:33 Why the best government plans fail

34:40 Tax-funded Midas curse

40:02 The instrument fallacy

43:18 The implementation doom loop

46:01 You say you want a revolution

49:57 What's happening to Islam in Iran?

52:16 Voluntary organizing a revolution

56:21 Government hates the competition

CREDITS

Bill Protzmann is your moderator.

This episode is sponsored by Zero Aggression Project. https://zeroaggressionproject.org/

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