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You're misreading the hesitation about going into places like Iran.

It's not because we think the regime is/was good, but rather because of the completely predictable next 10-50 years of shit we're going to experience as a result.

Regime change is hard and oftentimes has the opposite effect of what you want. For example, see the current Iran regime.

10-50 is quite conservative. The current situation can be directly traced more-or-less directly to the CIA-instigated Mosaddegh coup in 1953.

It's also basically never been about freedom or whatever propaganda people are fed each time.

It is not a binary choice. This is the greatest illusion people in power manage to create, there are only two choices - pro or anti.

Sure, me too. But that was the point of his character – the false equivalence that he was the good guy, and those are the two options.

He justified ignoring the rules, which lead to the death of someone in his command, due to his own moral arrogance.

There's a third option. Someone who understands the weight of the role and holds themselves (or is held) accountable.

I choose neither.

Khomeini died almost forty years ago