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Jimmy Carter is a Fucking Idiot
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Originally posted by Not Me
It has been a long time since I thought about the fall of the Shah, but I thought Iran under the Shah was not as oppressive as many of the other totalitarian regimes in the Middle East. I thought there actually was a parliment and that it was precisely because there was some freedom in Iran that a revolution could take place.
Not that any of that matters if there was no way to prevent an Islamic state.
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De Tocqueville wrote that the French Revolution happened only after things started to improve for most people. He thought it came when improvements could not keep up with rising expectations.
I'm inclined to think that the revolution in Iraq is one of the more important developments of the second half of the last century, and I'd like to read an account that gives some perspective on it, but it's obviously been tough for Western writers to write that book. Still, I'd appreciate recommendations.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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