----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>
No need to repeat myself again.
I'd imagine people in the US government wrote very similar memos during, say, the rise of the Ayatollah in Iran. No one would suggest that they were worried about the "threat of a good example" that would be posed by an Islamic dictatorship. All the memo shows is something everyone here (yours truly included) already knew: Nixon et al. didn't particularly care about legitimacy or legality.
-- Luke
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So, if you're going to be consistent rather than ethnocentric/jingoist/imperialist you'd have no problems with any gov. successfully overthrowing the US gov., right?
Ian