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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (69759)	11/13/2005 3:21:41 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) of 81568

Carter was not responsible for the fall of the Shah. True, he could have invaded Iran and stopped the takeover, but we were really poorly equipped to do that in those days, still licking our wounds from Vietnam and deeply in debt. The Soviets also stood in our way. They had interests in Iran. The Shah's fall was in progress well before Carter came into power. In fact the middle east was ready to explode before Carter came in. It was about both oil money (Arab nations wanting a much bigger share of it) and Islamic fundamentalism. I recommend you read the book THE PRIZE which is a history of the oil business. There you will see that the Shah was only holding onto power by brutally supressing his opponents, and was spending so much money on his own super lavish lifestyle that it was a grave insult to his own people. The Iranian situation is really tragic, but there is no one administration you can blame for it. Various blame can go to Nxon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, then later to GW Bush. But mainly it was the Shah's own fault. GW's latest move in Iraq proved to doom the Iranian moderates. Now the country is back in the hands of far rightwing religious zealots. Just as bad as the Ayatollah.

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