[lbo-talk] Islamofascism Awareness Week

[Shane Mage]

Jerry Monaco wrote:
>... If with every breadth we condemn the wrongs
>  > > committed by  the current Iranian regime we don't also
>>  > say that
>>  > we overthrew a regime (Mossadeq) that might have prevented those crimes,
>>
>>  No shit. Really. This is all very obvious. I really don't know who is
>>  condemning the "current" regime (Mossadeq? I thought that was the one
>  > that was overthrown) with every "breadth." You're not making any sense.
>
>The paretheses was misplaced.  Sorry.  Does that defeat the argument?

What has been, quite understandably, forgotten here is that the "Mossadeq
regime" (really reformist-nationalist government) was overthrown not once
but twice, and "we" had nothing to do with the second overthrow.  In
1979, after the Shah abandoned ship, the Majlis elected the leader of
the Mossaqeq party, Shapur Bakhtiar, as prime minister.  His "regime,"
nationalist, democratic, and progressive in program, was overthrown
in days by the Khomeinists.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos