MR. WHIPPLE IS WATCHING
Squeeze the Mullahs?
Could the Tribune Editorial Board, in their September 6 editorial, have used a more unfortunate and demeaning phrase to discuss the West's diplomatic efforts to achieve resolution of Iran's nuclear program, peaceful or otherwise?
Maybe the Board is simply enamored with American exceptionalism which has been squeezing the Iranian people since 1953 when we assisted the Brits in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeg because he wanted to end British domination of Iranian oil wealth. The CIA, working with British spy agencies, arranged the ouster of the popular Mosaddeg and replaced him with an all powerful monarch, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the infamous Shah, who ruled for 26 years, and whose secret police, trained by our CIA, killed thousands of Iranian dissidents. Those thousands of deaths were not in vain as our villainy gave us a 40% share of Iranian oil wealth snatched from the Mosaddeg policies.
If our unnecessary and failed invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have achieved anything other than millions of casualties and refugees on their way to bankrupting America, it is that the US doesn't attack countries that have nuclear weapons. Just ask North Korea. We invade countries for frivolous reasons, then we threaten and may likely attack countries who just might believe a tiny bit of nuclear parity is the answer to our aggressiveness.
To paraphrase the wimpy guy in the commercial, "Please don't squeeze the Mullahs".
Originally published in the Chicago Tribune, September 22, 2009
Could the Tribune Editorial Board, in their September 6 editorial, have used a more unfortunate and demeaning phrase to discuss the West's diplomatic efforts to achieve resolution of Iran's nuclear program, peaceful or otherwise?
Maybe the Board is simply enamored with American exceptionalism which has been squeezing the Iranian people since 1953 when we assisted the Brits in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeg because he wanted to end British domination of Iranian oil wealth. The CIA, working with British spy agencies, arranged the ouster of the popular Mosaddeg and replaced him with an all powerful monarch, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the infamous Shah, who ruled for 26 years, and whose secret police, trained by our CIA, killed thousands of Iranian dissidents. Those thousands of deaths were not in vain as our villainy gave us a 40% share of Iranian oil wealth snatched from the Mosaddeg policies.
If our unnecessary and failed invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have achieved anything other than millions of casualties and refugees on their way to bankrupting America, it is that the US doesn't attack countries that have nuclear weapons. Just ask North Korea. We invade countries for frivolous reasons, then we threaten and may likely attack countries who just might believe a tiny bit of nuclear parity is the answer to our aggressiveness.
To paraphrase the wimpy guy in the commercial, "Please don't squeeze the Mullahs".
Originally published in the Chicago Tribune, September 22, 2009
posted by Walt Zlotow at 4:01 AM
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