And by the way, Mosaddeq was a socialist, and was probably closer to being a dictator communist than he was to being a typical beaurocrat.Hindsight is always 20/20. Mossadeq wasn't a socialist, although his attempts to nationalize Iran's oil wealth might be misconstrued as socialism. The nationalization was more of a result of British shortsightedness(they refused to give the Iranians the same deal as Saudi Arabia) rather than grand socialist ambitions.I am not a big fan of anti-imperialism simply for the sake of being anti-imperial. As Dinesh Desouza said in his book “What’s So Great About America”, being a victim of imperialism was not a bad thing in many cases for India.
That's beside the point though. What interests me is just how poorly we predict the future and how decisions come back to bite us in the end. We're still paying for our decisions 50 years ago today.
Well, if you ever get that time machine running...let me know first...;)