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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: daryll40 who wrote (54962)11/1/2001 9:15:23 AM
From: Mark Marcellus  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
The administration that allowed and even encouraged the overthrow of the Shah of Iran (that could have been prevented with US support)? The administration that was in power when this whole Islamic Jihad thing REALLY began to spin out of control?

OT: I thought this stuff was supposed to be on the other thread, but no matter where you put it, it is nonsense. Our problems in the Middle East, and in the rest of the world, will never really be solved until Americans legitimately try to understand what's going on in the world around them instead of using jingoism and scapegoating as a substitute for thinking.

For the record, the Iranian revolution had its roots in 1953, and had been simmering for a long time. The best opportunity to prevent it came in the late 60's and early 70's. Let's try an analogy. Suppose the bomb squad is called in to defuse a bomb and someone snips the wrong wire by mistake. Who is to blame for the resulting explosion, the guy who cut the wrong wire or the one who planted the bomb in the first place?

Finally, supposing we had moved to support a corrupt, decaying regime headed by an aging ruler and hated by most of its people? This would have given us another staunch, loyal Middle Eastern ally just like... Saudi Arabia? As bad as it turned out, I don't think that you can assume things would have turned out any better in Iran had we propped up the Shah at that time. It's not like the people of Iran turned to Khomeini because they yearned for an Islamic fundamentalist regime. It's more like they had no other acceptable choice.
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