re: #227 Kragar

I was unaware that Carter was the reason the Shah was overthrown:

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Here I was, thinking it was Islamists taking advantage of existing conditions to seize power, when it was Carter all along.

And the Islamists were so grateful for Carter’s help that they put up a bunch of American Embassy staff on an all-expense-paid vacation for 400-some days, and made sure he didn’t get reelected.
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Seriously, I always wonder when these clowns talk about us ‘losing’ a country, what they think we could have done to ‘keep’ it. We threw billions and 50,000 lives at Vietnam and still lost it. How many American lives and how many billions were they willing to sacrifice for the Reza Pahlavi?

And this doesn’t even get into the question of by what right do WE determine what government other nations must accept.