• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    Blaming the US for the excesses of the Iranians is like excusing Charles Manson because he was abused as a child.

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      10 days ago

      Are you intetionally this ignorant or did the school system fail you?

      Mohammad Mosaddegh (Persian: محمد مصدق, IPA: [mohæmˈmæd(-e) mosædˈdeɢ] ⓘ; 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was a member of the Iranian parliament from 1923, and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iran coup aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh

      In his place, they installed the brutal regime of the Shah. Obviously when you have external influence hindering progress like that the backlash is often strong men and autocracies as are more resistant to such meddling.

      If you want we can continue with how the US government went on to help and fun the Iraq/Iran war following the, unfortunately theocratic, revolution.

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        10 days ago

        So, you’re saying that because the Shah was terrible in 1979 it’s okay for the current people to be terrible now?

        Right now Vietnam is a very popular tourist destination for Americans. I know people who have been there several times and want to go back.

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      10 days ago

      Strangely enough I suspect a significant amount of Americans would excuse Charles Manson. There’s a giant movement right now to get the Menéndez brothers out of prison because they were abused. Charles Manson would also be helped by the fact that he was a racist white dude trying to ignite a race war.