In Reply to: It was only a few days ago that Iranians here in L A. were . . . posted by BluBlood on February 28, 2026 at 23:18:30
realize that yes, Vuetcong was horrible, but so was the South Vietnamese government was also corrupt and brutal as fuck.
Do these Iranians not know that? The Ayatolla was a horrible human being. Nobody denies it. But the Shah though. I recently finished a book on the coup of 1953 that installed the Shah by the CIA and Great Britain. Prime minister Massadaq was very much a democrat who wanted free elections, the free press, women's rights, and free speech. But he also wanted to nationalize his country's oil reserves. So we overthrew him.
I will remember that when I hear Muslims in the Middle East hate us because we have freedom and democracy and they don't.