<Attacked and gassed Iran >
I think one should start this with the UK-US ousting of the Iran prime minster Mossadeg, and installation
of the "US-puppet" Shah, resulting later on in the Iranian revolution and Khomeini. Plus the factors
that Iraq was and is, especially Saddam and Baath, the least religious, most secular regime, group in the
area.(skipping the Kurds).
Plus the attempts at "regime change" by Iran for Irak, as well as a "western" need for destabilizing
Iran, fear of at worst a close cooperation by Iran-Irak, as well as how the present borders were drawn.
Although people of today, outside the area, maybe do not know, remember this, the people having
lived through it, or the offspring of those who lived through it, know it very well.
Ilmarinen
couple of factors to remeber for Kuwait are
- why and when the Kuwaiti borders were drawn the way they were
- Kuwaiti steps towards independence, some kind of parliement
- Kuwaiti vote for becoming a part of Iraq
- Kuwaiti role during the Iran-Irak war, support turned debt.
- plus some more leading up to Glaspie
And the general rule that former colonies when achieved independence
usually have some good reasons for changing the borders their colonial
masters made for them, plus the old thing about those "natives" who
were the local helpers, those who were in opposition to the colonial master,
and how that playes out after independence.
Plus the difference between "political independence" and "economical independence",
right to nationalize not just political power but also economy,etc..
(even to correct how history, or as it is often said, "his-story", is written) |
