Bin Laden is dead. Great. Now, can we get all of our freedoms back and get the hell out of the middle east?
I thought Obama was supposed to lead us out of the middle east, in addition to healing the planet and controlling ocean levels with the sheer force of his will. Maybe we should get serious about electing people who will do something more decisive than playing musical chairs with the leaders of our military-intelligence complex?
trzy. We are directly responsible for the theocracy in Iran. When those people burn our flags and celebrate when something horrible happens to the US, they have damn good reason to.
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The US is partially responsible for creating the circumstances that ultimately led to that, but why don't you also blame the Iranians who actually installed the theocracy? Let's apply Occam's Razor and assign blame to the ones actually pulling the trigger. They could have re-installed a socialist or created a secular democracy, or even a military dictatorship, but instead they chose theocracy and that's not America's fault. The takeaway lessons from the overthrow of Mossadegh are: use regime change more sparingly, be careful of blowback, and, for nationalists around the world, don't steal the property of investors backed by more powerful governments than your own.