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Old 07-30-2007, 04:35 PM   #10
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Well, most of our stands WERE hypocritcal. As we were talking about democracy and freedom (rather than our rhetoric being solely for capitalism) and then backing folks like Pinochet, the Shah of Iran, etc... the rhetoric tended to be contradicted.

Oh, and speaking of which, let me nominate the Shah of Iran... whose dictatorial regime led to a resurgence in Islamic fundamentalism, culminating in the Ayatollah Khomeni's rule of Iran.
Pinochet achieved his coup on his own, though we signaled we would accept the coup. The initial coup was bloody, but the regime was more moderate afterwards, and ultimately left power peacefully, with only a minor push from us.


Iran under the Shah varied over time in its internal functioning, and had elected parliaments at various times. It was no model of western civil liberties, but it was hardly the totalitarian state it is sometimes implied to be. (I agree that not distancing from it earlier was a strategic mistake)
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