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To: Alexandermf who wrote (75392)3/2/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
we could have prevented it.

How? By not switching ambassadors? By urging the Shah to let his troops fire on the demonstrators?

The problem in most of these situations is that by the time the anger and the unrest have burst out into the open, they are already irreversible. There was probably a time when we - and he - could have done something about it, but that time was long past by the time we realized there was a problem.




To: Alexandermf who wrote (75392)3/2/2000 9:35:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Please give a reasoned explanation of how the United States President could have legally stopped the fall of the Shah?
Then, having failed at that, explain how the President of the United States could have illegally stopped the fall of the Shah? No jive talk, now, a clear explanations of the steps. How many people and who would have had to be assassinated? How many agents would we have lost. Just the facts, mam. No lies or bluster.


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