Iran Libre?

"Overthrowing a government is like releasing a wheel at the top of a hill—you have no idea exactly what will happen next. Iranians are not the only ones who know this. In slightly more than a century, the United States has overthrown the governments of at least 14 countries, beginning with the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, and forcibly intervened in dozens more. Long before Afghanistan and Iraq, there were the Philippines, Panama, South Vietnam and Chile, among others.
"Most of these interventions not only have brought great pain to the target countries but also, in the long run, weakened American security."

Stephen Kinzer in the Los Angeles Times argues against American intervention in Iran.