05-12-2016, 03:52 PM
(05-12-2016, 09:12 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: You don't have to convince me...it is the liberals and other neo-cons that need to be convinced. We've tried a saeculum of doing the exact opposite of what George Washington told us to do and what do we have for it? A declining economy, crumbling infrastructure, an empty treasury and being nearly universally hated.
Good luck with that. You are talking about two groups of people that have made careers out of ignoring the obvious.
(05-12-2016, 09:12 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: As for Iran's problems with the US, I actually trace that back to the US. The CIA backed a coup against Mosaddegh, and placed the Shah back in power, and then Shah in turn purged whatever moderates and democrats there were leaving only folks like Kohmeini around to pick up the pieces after the Shah was deposed a second time. In short messing around in other country's affairs backfired, and have always backfired and now we have to deal with the blow back.
That is the event I was referring to. Nice to know someone out there knows some history.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises