07-16-2009, 03:57 AM
Quote:Clearly tyranny has always, 100% of the time been successful.I seem to remember the "Students" were pissed because Carter let Pahlavi go to New York to get cancer treatment. Nothing to do with starting a coup.
We cannot help them. Our "help" will only make it harder on them. It'll give the Iranian neocons an argument which is still too valid. <span style="color:#FFCC00">The hostage crisis occurred because they thought we were starting a coup to reinstate the Shah. It didn't matter that none of that was true, they remembered the 1953 coup.
If these people need help, it can't come from us.
*shrug*
Amazing how history books are written, eh?
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