Iran more exposed to risk in the disorder in Iraq than the US?

Spengler has an interesting post on this hypothesis now. Also of interest is his link through the heart of darkness to a book by Aldous Huxley on an origin of the European madness, Cardinal Richelieu and his spymaster. Part of the experience is to look back on the Hapsburg empire, the patron of music from at least Mozart to Strauss, the home to Freud, and a government beyond nationality.