Posted on 12/31/2017 4:36:40 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
Happy New Year to all FReepers everywhere.
My year-end prayer is that 2017 will have been just the warmup for 2018.
Hopefully we can finally get some justice in our precious country.
I am not making this up.
Knock at door, dogs go nuts. It’s DIANE FEINSTEIN!
Now she told me she might stop by but still I was surprised.
So I got some videos of my granddaughter and was showing them to Diane when my text about her, on this thread, came on screen.
I was able to hurry up and reduce the screen.
We’re supposed to go to church tomorrow, which is a holy day of Obligation. I told her if she didn’t call me I will assume she’s not goin.
Got to establish that ahead of time.
Spent about an hour talking and chatting. It was nice. Exchanged gifts.
Heh.
She told me her choir days were over.
Sounds like a perfect time to take out Iran's air defenses, and then airdrop some loaded firepower into the crowds.
("You guys take these grenades, I'll take the AR, you can have the mortar")
Speaking of which....Trump needs to tweet out:
Hey Deplorables!
Have lots of kids....homeschool them.
My top three stories for 2017:
1. Donald J. Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America.
2. President Trump leads nation into historic economic territory.
3. President Trump begins to take apart the nobama era “legacy.”
4. Bonus: President Trump plays championship 3D chess with his opponents.
The Shah was in power from 1941 to 1979. He was briefly removed from power by Mosaddegh, but a coup organized by the US and the UK returned him to power.
Yes, the Shah was not a "strongman," but SAVAK was quite capable of controlling and taking out any political opposition. There was certainly fear among the political opposition. It was the US led by Carter and Vance that warned the Shah not to use force against the political opposition. The Shah followed that "advice" until it was too late. Brzezinski advised the Shah belatedly to unleash SAVAK, but by that time, it was too little, too late. The Shah was hamstrung by conflicting advice from Vance and Brzezinski.
It is only conjecture, but if the Shah had opted to ignore the US and use SAVAK to eliminate the opposition, the Iranian Revolution may never have got off the ground. They could have assassinate Khomeini in France.
During the final days, the Shah used to summon often Ambassador Sullivan in the middle of the night seeking counsel on what to do. The conflicting advice out of Washington made things much worse. And the treatment of the Shah after he left Iran by the US was a disgrace. It was just another example of the US abandoning an ally when it became expedient to do so. It happened in Vietnam and Egypt and to some extent in Libya. Protecting American national interests should be the primary goal of our foreign policy, not some ambiguous human rights campaign that is directed against our allies.
Iran is far worse off today than it was under the Shah. And we are living with the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism and future nuclear power because of bad decisions by Carter and his foreign policy team.
I'd drop Kalashnikovs:
..simplifies foraging for ammo
..making sure they all had Russian markings would also do a nice Dirty Trick as a special bonus.
(Been a bunch of years since my last collateral duty with our Dirty Tricks Division, but I do keep my hand in...)
That would have been Mississippi Roasted On a Stick Chicken (MROASC).
Well, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is actually trying to turn his deeply fundamentalist state into one much more moderate.
Here’s to hoping he succeeds!
Anyone can invest in the markets, that is true. However those who look to the past believing that it can somehow predict the future are as close to being guaranteed losers in the long run as is possible.
We have Three and my wife did home school them. The last one has a semester left to finish college. Now they all need to find jobs and get on with life
By all means. She is 5’7 and a former prosecuting attorney in San Francisco and LA. Age 48. Yum (to the extent allowed on FR)
He should be very careful. Making concessions in that kind of society can be viewed as a sign of weakness.
Here is the official list of Trump accomplishments in foreign policy for 2017:
We have Three and my wife did home school them.
Good job!
I pray there are thousands more like that. Have a happy and prosperous New Year!
You left the part out where Nixon withdrew any US internal collection in Iran. All “intel’ on conditions in Iran would come through SAVAK.I think it was part of a deal for the purchase of F14s. So with SAVAK controlling the USA “window” into Iran, its no wonder that the US was caught with its pants down when things went “squirrelly” there. Now yes there was “other reporting” outside official collection channels that said things are not good. “Official Washington” pretty much ignored those! Of course at the “end game” having Jumping Jimmy sitting in the place ‘where the buck stops” was icing on the cake!
I remember one of the “outside” channel reports pointed out that our 50,000 personnel footprint (I think I remember the number right. I know it was a number that shocked me in its size!) was very irritating to the common Iranian. It made the propaganda of an “American Colony” look true! So if Iran ever comes back to normal lets remember that!
Regarding SAVAK, SAVAK was certainly not worse then Iraqi secret police or the Syrian, or the Turkish, or the Egyptian! Go be a dissident in Jordan and see if you get thrown roses!
They were rather typical for any Mideast despot.
The reason its “popular” to think of them as “super bad” is because of the 1970s demonstrating Iranian students & and our lazy “disinterested in the facts” western media and delusional literati.
The West is not the East or Mideast and vice versa!
Too many people believed 7 still believe that stupid Coca-Cola commercial! The one where all join hands and sing, “I’d like to teach the world to sing...etc”, etc. Every time I saw that commercial I would think , ‘and these people vote!’.
Yeah, I truly think it’s something they can’t change, if they have this trait.
And let's be ready to remind them: "There's a good reason for that."
typo
“... believed 7 still believe ...” = “..believed & still believe ..”
I wish you could edit your posts!
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