[SolidWood]

Wardaddy, you should be addressing RAO1125. He said “a dictator is a dictator” and is trashing the Shah.

He was writing to rjsimmon.

[wardaddy]

whoops my bad....the problem with assuming all dictators are bad period is that dictators who are friendly or even ambivalent to us are all too often replaced by someone who hates us with a mortal passion

this pattern goes back to the Romanoff-Bolshie transition and beyond

and the replacement dictator is also usually a collectivist who can't run an economy either