What if the Shah of Iran had remained: 35 years later

FSM ^ | 9/28/14 | Slater Bakhtavar

[octex]

What if we had let Spain keep Cuba and Puerto Rico in 1898? Cuba would be a lot better off than it is under Castro. And we wouldn’t have idiots trying to make PR a state.
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Fully agree with that, VR!

PR is essentially just another US ghetto that gets all the handouts from US taxpayers but doesn’t pay any US taxes.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Again, thank (or maybe a different verb) you, Jimmy Carter.

[Coldwater Creek]

I have a friend who was a Federal Agent who was assigned t0 the Shah when he was having his cancer treatment and became “friends”. My friend wore a little pin that said Jesus First. One day the Shah asked what it meant. Opened a small window for my friend to witness. He died soon after. So who knows............

[Ax]

I was at the Embassy in Teheran in 1975, working at the “warehouse.” I went from there to Rome. When the “students” came over the wall in 1979, we were trying to support the evacuation of dependents. Several of the Marines from the Rome Detachment were sent to Teheran to supplement the Teheran Detachment. My two very good buds were the last two guys out. They were stopped at several “komiteh” roadblocks, manned by teenagers with AK-47s. A great roar of relief from the evacuees on that PANAM flight when the captain announced that they had exited Iranian air space.