Billmon: The Flight Forward, Part 2

On Sunday, I looked at the institutional and psychological pressures that may be leading the Cheney administration to view regime change in Iran as the only way of out of an increasingly intolerable situation created by the failure of the neocons' Iraq gambit.

Today, I want to consider whether similar pressures might apply on the Iranian side of this crisis, pressures which could lead Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his fellow revolutionary hardliners to seek their own flight forward in a confrontation with Global Arrogance, a.k.a. The Great Satan, a.k.a. the United States of America.