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ping for later... when i feel like reliving the good ole days
Another stupid plan by our brightest and best.
That short sighted policy is biting us in the @$$ to this day, 30 years later ! Also consider what happened in Nicaragua with the Somoza administration. One thing. I went to a Jesuit H.S. in Indianapolis in the first hald of the 1980’s. The Religion Department was not a department that supported the Word of God but instead supported the religious left (liberation theology). They promoted Marxist viewpoints such as the Sandinista. Also at the time when Solidarity in Poland was at the height before the crackdown, the religion department supported the Soviet led crackdown in how comments were made that people should obey the gov’t. One of the most liberal teacher’s from that department left the school two years after I graduated from there (1987) and became professor at Humboldt State in Arcata, CA in the Women’s Study and Political Sci departments.
Trilateral Commission? This is posted for the humor value, right?
Just reading this, I have to ask, who benefits ?
George Ball was a notorious Arabist.
My reading of this is that it leaves out a key player: Saudi Arabia.
At this time, Iran was looking to become the Security Guarantor of the Gulf, a non-Arab, Shiite power asserting itself.
I don' think the Arabs, led by Saudi Arabia saw this as desireable, and both the US and the UK's foreign services were tilted toward the Arabs.
That's my take on it.
This was one of the main targets of the Shah's SAVAK.
I don't think that the American State Department and British Foreign Office this saw them as problems like the Shah did, and used this as a Human Rights issue to "beat up" the Shah, even if, as the article contends, they were using these groups to agitate against the Shah.
Iran would now be one of the leading countries of the world, and would certainly have the developing tech industry that India has, if the Shah had not been overthrown.
A tremendous amount of propaganda was directed at the Iranians, and also at Americans to facilitate the overthrow of the Shah.
President Carter is entirely within the pockets of the Saudis, in fact, he is in an even more defiling portion of their apparel which I will not name here.
These things can only be seen in hindsight.
Joe Biden has warned Israel to leave the baby-milk factory at Natanz alone.Don't disturb the golden age of peaceful coexistence with Muslims which Hussein is about to introduce.
And let's not be critical of Jimmy Carter.
He has perfect pitch where tyrants are concerned.
There's not one whose ass he hasn't kissed.
Oh, and Zbigniew Brzezinski?
He coauthored with Robert Gates the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations paper "Iran: Time for a New Approach" calling for negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Isn't it special that Hussein kept Gates--so we can slash defense and negotiate with a proto-nuclear Holocaust Denier.