Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
....look at the Middle East and thank Ike for buying into the idea that putting the Shah of Iran in power was a good idea.
This from someone who supports the Republican ethos .
Pretty much every American President from the Civil War onwards has meddled in the affairs of other sovereign nations. Not that it makes it right. So I assume by your comments about the Shah that you would rather Iran have been run by a ultra-nationalist, anti-imperialist (ie anti-American)?