Last night on PBS radio I listened to a talk given by Stephen Kinzer author of All The Shah's Men.
All the Shah's Men : An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (ISBN 0471678783 ) is a book, written by journalist Stephen Kinzer, about the 1953 CIA-engineered coup in which Mohammed Mossadegh was overthrown by American and British agents (chief among them Kermit Roosevelt) and royalists loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The democratically-elected Mossadegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, now BP.
All the Shah's Men - Wikipedia
The Dulles brothers and the CIA were responsible for overthrowing a democratic government lead by a great leader and they imposed a cruel tyranny on Iran in order to maintain control of the oil fields there. The US is still reaping the bad karma of that greedy evil action.
Kinzer is also cautioning that the same kind of thoughtless intervention in Iraq can lead to the same kinds of repercussions decades later.
I have such hatred for the evil the CIA has wrought in Iran, Chile, Guatamela. And then ignorant Americans act shocked that they hate us. We send them foreign aid, teach them how to torture and imprison and spy on their populations, rape nuns even in Guatemala and then act shocked by the results of our high handed callous uncaring ripoff.
Read Kinzer's book. I'm checking it out tonight.
Washington Post reporter Thomas E. Ricks book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq details this. I heard him speak but his book is not yet in my library. Listen to the report of how badly many of our troops treated Iraqies. There were generals who did it right but they were often a minority and often acting against the wishes of the Administration. I'm not an advocate of the terrorists but the CIA has used terror against these countries and the the US military was doing it as top level policy never mind the self serving lies of the Bush administration. It wasn't on the initiative of a bunch of non coms.
I am utterly disgusted by the double standard. It's okay if we do it for the profit of a few but wrong when our frustrated victims strike out from insane governments that resulted from our colonial meddling.
Bush and his band of war crimminals have no moral superiority to the terrorist that US dollars and the CIA helped create. Bush lies to the public and he and his cronies pocket the profit while we foot the bills and they bill the coming generations. They don't care if the US goes bankrupt as long as they get theirs. The raw evil is right there in control of Washington DC. We don't need to go to the middle east to find the terrorist. They rule us, and fools us.
Bush had better hope the fundies are wrong here and that I'm right cause what he and his cronies have done would assurdedly earn him a spot in hell if hell existed.
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