We've been the baddies for several generations

A lot of the problems in the world can still be traced back to the British empire. We've essentially taken their place but aren't nearly as bad because we aren't trying to colonize and frick up everything around the world. There isn't much if anything from a foreign policy perspective that we've done well since WW2. Almost everything we touch turns to shite and doesn't benefit us at all. It's pretty impressive that we've managed to preserve while wasting so much capital in these fraudulent endeavors.

So by installing the shah, we were actually ousting him from power. Interesting tactic

Remember the "Green Revolution", when Obama let a perfect opportunity to support the Iranian people go to waste. IMHO

Al little walk down memory lane.

TIME’s People Who Mattered 2009

Neda Agha-Soltan


We’ll never know the man who stood in front of those tanks in Tiananmen Square, but we do know Neda Agha-Soltan: we’ve looked into her eyes. For one gut-wrenching moment, as she lay dying from the bullet in her heart on that Tehran side street last June, Neda stared directly into the cell phone that was about to immortalize her. Within hours, millions of people around the world had been beseeched by those fading eyes, making an intimate connection with the 27-year-old music student and the cause for which she was killed by the thugs of an embattled regime. Before Neda’s murder, the street protests against Iran’s stolen election had been a revolution without a face, doomed to be crushed by brute authority and eventually forgotten. But Neda’s dying gaze drew the eyes of the world. We can neither look away nor forget.

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Take your meds…

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I don't understand why the Brits don't get more shite for the state of the middle east generally, and Iran specifically.

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Well they do, but not on these channels. Discussing colonialism and its effects is primarily a Leftist endeavor.

It's discussed plenty in universities promoting various leftist-socialist ideologies.

In face, in a fit of irony, the reason the "Democratically elected" leader of Iran was ousted was due to its Marxist-socialist policies (remember this was prime Cold War time)

Today in international conflicts we're typically dealing with the fallout of colonialism mixed in with Cold War policies. In the Middle East, radical Islam took a major role after the fall of the Shah in 1979

Iran is a cross section of all 3 of these factors.

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We've been the baddies for several generations

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Says the biggest Putin cheerleader on this board

I think you're right about that.

So the US made a chess move to counter the Soviets. It is neither bad nor good, it was about self preservation. Thats how all of this goes on an international stage. No country can be a goodie and survive unless they are in league in some way with "baddies" who agree not to crush them.