{"id":38511,"date":"2013-08-19T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/worlds-worst-kept-secret-revealed.html"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:47:10","slug":"worlds-worst-kept-secret-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/worlds-worst-kept-secret-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"World's worst-kept secret … revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yes, the CIA (most likely with the support of the UK's foreign service) was responsible for a coup of a democratically elected national leader, installing a government that was useful to us for a while, until it led to a revolution that's caused us nothing but grief since.<\/p>\n

Stop me if you've heard this one.<\/p>\n

One of the problems with US foreign policy is that it is far too closely tied to US economic interests (in this case, reacting to a nationalization of Iran's oil industry), and thus acts on their behalf, not on behalf of any ideals or considered interests in the matter. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The answer is not to withdraw from the world, of course — that path\u00a0just allows genocide, if nothing else. \u00a0But our engagement with the world needs to be something more thougthful than it is. \u00a0It's not that being the world's policeman is a problem — if we were really acting on behalf of international law and order — but that we're more often the world's mall cop, kicking people around because the shop owners don't like them there. \u00a0Not surprisingly, that rarely ends well.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sixty years later, CIA admits role in Iran coup – The Hill’s Global Affairs<\/a>
\n The National Security Archive on Monday published evidence of the CIA’s long-known role in the 1953 Iran coup that helped pave the way for the Islamic revolution 26 years later. The newly declassified material is believed to contain the CIA’s first public acknowledgment of its role in deposing democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq after he nationalized the country’s oil industry.\n <\/p>\n

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Yes, the CIA (most likely with the support of the UK's foreign service) was responsible for a coup of a democratically elected national leader, installing a government that was useful to us for a while, until it led to a revolution that's caused us nothing but grief since. 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