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Eliot Rosewater

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Wed Mar 1, 2017, 02:22 PM Mar 2017

Do Americans know how the US and alies created Bin Laden, ISIL, etc? [View all]

Dont think they do.



http://www.e-ir.info/2016/04/02/us-foreign-policy-towards-the-middle-east-in-the-1950s/


In July 1953, Eisenhower authorized an operation to overthrow Mosaddegh and ‘install a pro-western government in Iran’ through ‘legal or quasi legal means’ (Top Secret Policy Draft, July 1953). Official documents show that the desire to ‘bring to power a government…which would vigorously prosecute the dangerously strong communist party’ (Secret Summary, post-coup) was at the heart of considerations. A security document of the 10th September 1953 labelled ‘Anti-Tudeh Activities’, reports on the progress of exactly that. ‘Arrested 412 members…arrested members to be banished… Ministers agreed upon ousting Tudeh members from Government Ministries’ (Security Information, 1953). Thus the Iranian coup provides a strong example of the importance the US placed on ensuring a Western orientated anti-communist government in Iran.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat


If they understood why we are hated by so many, would it matter?
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