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To: D-fendr
I’m really not sure of the answer here, but in line with a frequent meaning of “nationalize,” did: “Mossedeq’s move in 1951 to nationalize the oil industry” mean stealing oil companies property and other assets?

Yep, but them's the breaks, as they say. When you invest in such barbaric places sometimes you get the short end of it. We are living with the results of our response to that act by Iran in 1951 and it was a bad idea. Staging a coup in Iran has not done anything good for the world or us and it is very odd, in my opinion, for people calling themselves conservative to go about pretending otherwise. We should learn a lesson from history on this point and reconsider doing the same things again and again and again all for the same ends.

20 posted on 12/16/2011 7:46:07 PM PST by cothrige
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To: cothrige

I dunno about your conclusion then.

If our mistake was protecting oil assets in Iran, I think I disagree. If there was another way to do so, I have no idea.

I believe Iran was better, for it’s people, under the shah. I think it obvious that it was better for America and the world than the mullahs. Yes, there was oppression and certain constraints on freedom under the shah, but less than today? I don’t think so.

Contrary to your conclusion, I think it could be posited that the mistake was made in allowing Iran to collapse into what it is today rather than in helping make it what is was previous. And, I’m not certain that your point that the people of Iran were against their previous government and for the current one is valid.

Certainly the young revolutionary theocrats were against the shah’s Iran, but I think it entirely possible that the people as a whole would rather have that Iran than what they have now, back then and today.

thanks for your reply.


23 posted on 12/16/2011 8:08:39 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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