The Shah was worse than a mere bastard...He was a brutal, murderous thug, whose actions finally lead to his overthrow, and the rise to power of the religious factions. How many people have to die in the service of the mercantilists, before people wake up to reality?
*** So he was. Agreed. Oh and by the way, it's not "their" oil. They nationalized the very industries we built at cents on the dollar. This violation of property rights back then should have resulted in us bombing each-and-every refinery to the ground and kept them razed until they restored all the property rights. Ah...That explains the problem, and the perspective. I see that this has all been a waste of time. Oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Good day. ***** Well, that last paragraph I wasn't expecting. If it was the 1960's and your oil refinery and multi-billion, multi-decade investment was arbitrarily taken how would you have handled it? And had we handled it by razing them to the ground, do you think we would be in the pickle we are in today? What do you think finances this nonsense?
