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To: Captain Kirk
Well....Ike wasn’t consistent but then he wasn’t dumb enough to get us ensnared in a land war to “build democracy” in the Middle East, was he?

Ah! We are a fickle blame-America isolationist, now aren't we?

After all (as I would point out if I were a blame-America isolationist) it was Eisenhower who, shortly after entering office, reversed Truman's adamant refusal to agree to a British sponsored coup against the Iranian government of Mohammed Mosaddeq.

Since the current global Jihad identifying America (the "Great Satan") as a principal target originated with the Iranian Revolution (by which even Shia hating Sunni militants openly admit they were inspired) which revolution was itself a reaction to the Western, modernist governance of the Shah following Mosaddeq's removal, I would, if I were a blame-America isolationist, blame Eisenhower rather than absolve him.

107 posted on 05/21/2007 4:47:40 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis

Well, according to the facts as you have laid them out, how could you absolve Eisenhower? What U.S. national interest was at stake in Iran in the 1950’s?


134 posted on 05/22/2007 8:08:24 PM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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