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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: maceng2 who wrote (51957)8/1/2004 3:15:54 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Britain and the USA's CIA did not help Iran during the 1950's and we reaped the whirlwind in the 70's.

Listen.. I'm not playing the apologist for how US policy has permitted non-democratic dictators to reign in the mid-east.. It might have made pragmatic sense in a cold-war environment, but there's been no reason not to put pressure on these societies to create progressive change, and to confront those governments who do not..

Iran was the victim of the cold war.. Sure the Brits and US overthrew Mossadegh, but who's to say that the communists wouldn't have done the very same thing, turning that nation into another Syria or Iraq, creating totalitarian regimes dependent upon Soviet arms to prop themselves up??

Quit being so naive PB when you bring up examples where the US supported some dictator or another.. Sure it was wrong, and at times counter-productive.. But the leaders of this country were myopically focused upon the Soviet threat..

Just as some generals in China remain myopically focused on Taiwan as some kind of threat..

The only threat Taiwan poses is that of an alternative political party to the fascists (former communists) in Bejing who are seeing their whole political ideology undermined by capitalism..

Hawk
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