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To: billbears

exactly-—interventionism is more of the cause of problems than isolationism.

look at Iran-—if we hadn’t started messing around in Iran in the 1950s and helping the shah seize power from a democratically elected government, there would have been no Islamic revolution in 1979


23 posted on 08/07/2007 11:15:45 AM PDT by ChurtleDawg (kill em all)
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To: ChurtleDawg
f we hadn’t started messing around in Iran in the 1950s and helping the shah seize power from a democratically elected government, there would have been no Islamic revolution in 1979

If you really believe this you are in need of an history lesson: Mossadegh (the prime minister) was an anti-semitic socialist cooperating with the Tudeh party (communists) and Islamists (Ayatollah Kashani) to topple the pro-American, pro-Western, pro-Israeli Shah. It was during the height of the cold War and his socialist agenda would have plunged Iran with all it's strategic significance into the arms of the Soviets. Mossadegh was abusing his power and had dictatorical ambitions. He overstepped the constitution and was amassing power. One of his first acts was also to revert the recognition of Israel. Thank God for the elegant and succesfull coup by the CIA, the Imperial Iranian Army and the Shah and General Zahedi. Without the 1953 counter-revolution Iran would have become an Islamist-Socialist Soviet pawn already 26 years before.

28 posted on 08/07/2007 11:25:30 AM PDT by SolidWood (UN delenda est.)
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