Will 2012 Be to Iran What 1998 Was to Iraq?

I don’t know who will be the next president and neither do you. But this sounds to my ear very much like one more click of the “regime-change ratchet,” regardless of who winds up in the Oval Office in 2013. - Will 2012 Be to Iran What 1998 Was to Iraq? - National Interest
China in the Persian Gulf - Paul Pillar