Will Bush save the mullahs in Iran?
Classically Liberal
12/21/06
Decades of US aid and military support for the Shah and his dictatorship alienated many Iranians. Iran had a large, educated middle class that didn't want the Shah and didn't want the mullahs either. And they would be happy to dispose of the theocrats today. But the bumbling, confused foreign policy of global central planning by the Bushites put the Iranian opposition between a rock and a hard place. Happy to dispose of the mullahs they couldn't and wouldn't want to be seen as doing the bidding of Bush. American involvement in Iraq set back the more secular, more liberal reform movements of Iran. It was not Bush's desire to stifle dissenters in Iran. It was just another one of the many foreseeable consequences of American interventionism which Bush ignored...
http://tinyurl.com/yz6ehc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
12/21/06
Decades of US aid and military support for the Shah and his dictatorship alienated many Iranians. Iran had a large, educated middle class that didn't want the Shah and didn't want the mullahs either. And they would be happy to dispose of the theocrats today. But the bumbling, confused foreign policy of global central planning by the Bushites put the Iranian opposition between a rock and a hard place. Happy to dispose of the mullahs they couldn't and wouldn't want to be seen as doing the bidding of Bush. American involvement in Iraq set back the more secular, more liberal reform movements of Iran. It was not Bush's desire to stifle dissenters in Iran. It was just another one of the many foreseeable consequences of American interventionism which Bush ignored...
http://tinyurl.com/yz6ehc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 22. Dez, 15:57
