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The joint partnership of the American government and media elite squelched all the bad news, successfully keeping US citizens in the dark. But the truth eventually leaked out in 1979, when the Iranian citizens rose up in unison against the Shah and overthrew him, bringing in the fiercely anti-American Ayatollah Khomeini with fantastic jubilation. Unfortunately, the US government could not stand the combination of a virulently anti-American leader with the overwhelming allegiance of his people. He was a perfect scapegoat for the US, which immediately piled false condemnations upon him and a year later we helped Iraq to fight a war against Iran, partly to punish the latter for its breakthrough to democracy. The Constitutional Revolution of Persia, the overthrow of Ahmad Shah, the election of Mohammed Mossadiq and the joyful welcome given to Ayatollah Khomeini are all classic examples of a nation’s people asserting their right to self-government—what G. K. Chesterton called democracy—despite external pressures and intervention. As Thomas Jefferson alluded to in his remark quoted above, fallen human nature tends to obscure and threaten true democracy. We Americans must be on our guard for the evil of a relentless transnational mega-corporate greed disguised as the good of an unselfish worldwide spread of democracy.
http://justin-86.newsvine.com Justin Soutar is a Roman Catholic freelance writer from Ohio. Since 2005 he has published twenty-five articles on pro-life issues, the Pope & his message, American politics and elections, terrorism, the Middle East, and other topics in a wide variety of Internet and print publications. I was born and raised a devout Catholic and a patriotic, conservative-leaning, Republican American. Early on I acquired a keen interest in politics. At age 10 I memorized parts of a 1996 presidential election debate between President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole; attended a Republican rally in an airport hangar; passed out Dole campaign literature around my neighborhood; and created my own "Dole Kemp" sign for my bedroom window facing the street. More quietly, but with great hope, I rooted for Bush-Cheney in 2000. After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, I became a staunch advocate of the "War on Terrorism". The showdown between President Bush and Pope John Paul II over the war in Iraq led me to begin critical thinking and open-minded research about American foreign policy. Subsequent discoveries provoked me to begin writing in March 2005. Previously published articles include "Rescuing the 2008 Presidential Campaign" (Political Cortex, April 10, 2008); "The Peace Pope" (Inside the Vatican, June/July 2006, pp. 36-39); and "The Shadow of Death" (Hereditas, August 2005). My book on terrorism is expected to be released by Tate Publishing in late 2008.
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