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To: Michael M who wrote (86000)	8/22/2000 12:12:55 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Did the US have the power to keep Somoza, or the Shah, in place? I don't think so. Maybe by direct military intervention, but that would hardly have been practical: I don't think the American people would have looked too kindly on the idea of sending their sons and their dollars to protect Tacho Somoza or the Shah from their own people. Both situations were the products of short-sighted interventions in years gone by, both were well beyond the point where they could be effectively reversed, and neither posed a sufficient risk to our security to be worth the expense it would have taken to conduct a prolonged and costly intervention with limited prospects for success.