Golly, can you imagine the Iranians being sore at us for overthrowing their elected government back in the 50s just so we could join the Brits in plundering their natural resources?
What a bunch of jerks!
Why are you still here?
Did we really overthrow Iran's government? I'm not so sure. I've read in multiple places that Operation Ajax was a failure and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had to flee. So the CIA ordered that operation ajax cease, but rogue agent Kermit Roosevelt continued. And exactly how much did Roosevelt's actions impact things anyway with the clerics already stirring things up against Mossadegh?
Last but not least, keep in mind that when the CIA "admitted" to it in 2013, it was during Obama's reign. It's possible that this "admission" was part of Obama's 8 years of apologizing for America's existence.
So I'm not as sure as I used to be that we overthrew Iran's government.
We were worried about the Soviet Union gaming a foothold.
And now the toehold that the soviets started and nurtured, and foolish liberals ignored is deep into America. THE HOUR IS LATE
Your suck rating is 13 out of 5
“...can you imagine the Iranians being sore at us for overthrowing their elected government back in the 50s...”
Yes, I can.
BUT
We got to play the cards as they lay on the table and it is a bad hand left from kicking the can down the road.
The Twelver/Doomsday Cult Shia medieval mullahs can not be allowed to get nukes with their current ballistic missile tech.
They do not want nukes to protect themselves as does every other nuclear power today.....they want nukes to start WWIII heralding in their long awaited prophet the Mahdi, and the final conquest of the world by their flavor of Islam.
There are 90,000,000 Iranians.....and they are not Arabs, they know how to fight.
It will take a full scale war like Desert Storm (unlikely) OR some tactical nukes.
NOBODY will lift a finger to save them if we use tactical....as long as China is guaranteed its oil...it will not care...Russia? Pakis?Indians? Norks? Brits? Frogs?
Everybody will demonstrate false outrage and burn up the TV interviews and the UN Podium paid for by the US condemning us......but they are doing that now.
In effect Trump faces the same question Truman did.....a powerful large hard to get at country run by zealots that needs shocked into surrender.
W have never forsworn “first use”, and doing so will put everybody on notice (RedChinks, Norks), America is back with some testicles and not to phock with us.
Change my mind.