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Conservatives don't like the idea of setting up or manipulating other governments, but since the founding we have stated that our ideals are to stand with free people over tyrants. All it takes is moral support.

That's what fifth grade history in a public school taught me, too, Adaher. But how does that square with supporting the Samoza regime and all the other repressive regimes in Central and South America when the public was crying Yanqui Go Home! How does that square with enabling Mubarek in Egypt and enabling the the Kings of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, and Morocco? How does that square with overthrowing the democratically-elected president of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Mossedegh, in 1953 an installing a pro-American Shah with Operation Ajax? How about siding with French imperialism in Vietnam? The list, unfortunately, goes on and on.
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