Max Boot recently endorsed the argument of former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who wrote last year in the formerly liberal Washington Post,  that

… the uprising in Iran also makes it more likely that an effective public diplomacy campaign could be waged in the country to explain to Iranians that such an attack is directed against the regime, not against the Iranian people.

Writing the Weekly Standard, former general Thomas McInerney said:

The destruction of Iran’s military force structure would create the opportunity for regime change as well, since it would eliminate some or all of Ahmadinejad’s and the mullahs’ ability to control the population. Simultaneously or prior to the attack, a major covert operation could be launched, utilizing Iranian exiles and dissident forces trained during the period of diplomacy.

Shades of those “exiles” and “dissident forces” who were  successfully deployed at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and Baghdad in 2003.

It is worth noting that WOS finds few  such illusions in the Israeli media.