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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (130340)4/28/2004 8:10:16 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>> It's taken Iran almost 20 years for that population to show the first major signs of disaffection with repressive and puritanical Theocracy..

it took the Irani people 25 years to overthrow the brutal dictator that the US installed in Iran to replace the democratically elected Mossadq government. Although most Americans are ignorant of that fact, I'm sure the well-informed are aware of it.

You can make all the excuses you want. Like the US didn't want to have a socialist government. Or it wanted cheap oil. Or whatever. That is not an excuse. Even though the empire builders want it to be.

OK, now that we've agreed on that. Let's think who was it that tossed out the Shah ? Was it a nice well-mannered western disposed moderate ? No. A milque toast like that would be killed if lucky, or tortured to death by the Savak.

So it takes a vicious thug to over-throw a vicious thug. And generally only a strongly motivated ideologue would undertake the sacrifice it entails. With the single-minded obsession required for success. I couldn't do it, and I think neither could you. Because we are not vicious thugs.

The basic mistake the US makes in foreign policy, is that it makes it impossible for anyone other than a gangster to survive anywhere it wants to meddle. And even the gangsters can't survive sometimes. As in Iraq now, or in Afghanistan earlier.

And yes, I do now understand that the US did not purposely install the Taliban. They were merely the beneficiaries of US aid that was meant for anyone vicious enough to dislodge the Soviets from Afghanistan. And guess what ? A vicious thug does not become a mild-mannered democrat after he wins. He generally becomes even more vicious.
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