[muawiyah]

I recall how Eisenhower got us deeply involved in Iran. Of course that was after WWII when he was Supreme Allied Commander and he mounted a joint effort with Joe Stalin's field commanders to OCCUPY IRAN!

Did someone forget that?

[Captain Kirk]

Well....Ike wasn’t consistent but then he wasn’t dumb enough to get us ensnared in a land war to “build democracy” in the Middle East, was he?

[Abcdefg]

How about Operation Keelhaul?

[TWohlford]

“I recall how Eisenhower got us deeply involved in Iran.”

Going into the 1950’s, the GOP was thought to be the “isolationist” party. They intentionally picked Ike to break out of that image, in an effort to convince voters that the GOP could better handle the Cold War and Korea.

If modern history would repeat itself, the Dems would be picking a candidate that would be thought to handle Iraq and the WOT better than Dubya. In that scenario, the Dems would certainly have the upper hand for the next election. For whatever reasons, they’ve chosen to portray themselves as the party that refuses to handle the situation, or will simply run away in defeat.

[Pelham]

What “deep involvement” are you claiming? Is sponsoring the Shah’s coup against Mossadegh “deep involvement”?

The joint effort with Stalin to occupy Iran that you mention was an Anglo-Soviet affair, and Eisenhower was an American last time anyone checked. Maybe no one “forgot” anything, you simply have a muddled idea of history.