I've been thinking about it very meticulously recently as I was going to post a message that we ought to send the Plains Peanut Farmer/white trash's answer to Jesse Jackson to mediate the crisis because,
after all, he did all he could to engender the worst foreign policy loss in memory.
The Shah was no boy-scout but he was our guy, our despot, our ace, and to imagine how
mind-bogging-ly in our favor the world's geo-political status would be, is a very depressing
thought, indeed.
As John Lennon sang; imagine there is no religion. Imagine no Mullahs, too. Jeez.
We may not like it, but those Middle-Eastern states are very hard to rule by western standards. If it works in Iraq we’ll be very lucky indeed. Most of them have despotic rule because that’s the only rule that will stabalize the nation.
If we took down the leadership of Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and a host of other nations, we would see massive carnage as a result. The Shah wasn’t a boy scout, but it’s my take that if Ronald Reagan himself were to rule Syria, he would have to use an iron fist approach.
As I recall, the Shah had a little over a thousand people in his prisons, that were so-called political prisoners. Have we not seen what the people of the Middle-East are capable of, if they want to activate a Jihad? It would be amazing for the Shah not to have had some ‘political’ prisoners.
Carter was such a sage...