quote of the day - America & regime changes

Aahz emailed this one to me:

( As Kinzer writes of the Iranian hostage crisis, 'because most Americans did not know what the United States had done to Iran in 1953, few had any idea why Iranians were so angry at the country they called 'the great Satan.'' They still don't. )

- From Anatol Lieven's review of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. Full review is at The New York Times.

Fear of communism made us overthrow the democratic PM of Iran and put the shah back in power. When the Ayatollah overthrew the shah, we backed Hussein...and now we're in Iraq to "save" it from Hussein! What next - another coup in Iran?

As jhulten posted recently, "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death"...