Sort of like how Carter broke Iran.

I suspect the Shah, the Ayatollah and all those folks who lived in Iran at the time had a little something to do with it.

I suspect the Shah, the Ayatollah and all those folks who lived in Iran at the time had a little something to do with it.

Of course they did. My point is that sometimes the devil you know is better then the devil you don't know. I believe George H W Bush got it right when he didn't push all the way into Iraq during the 1st Gulf War leaving Sadam in power. Carter should have backed the Shah rather than taking the moral high ground. Our own actions (or lack of action) contributed to the instability in Iran. Just like George W. Bush should have stayed out of Iraq. Now we own the current instability of both Iran and Iraq.

And let's not forget Libya. We were not skilled enough to fool around with the Middle East. But you broke it you bought it. We should provide any and all assistance to the forces against Isis short of providing troops. After all, they are killing our citizens and encouraging terrorist actions in the U. S.

Obama is not doing enough.

We reap what we sow.

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project).[3][4][5][6]

Mossadegh had sought to audit the books of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now BP) and to change the terms of the company's access to Iranian oil reserves. Upon alleged refusal of the AIOC to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament (Majlis) voted to nationalize the assets of the company and expel their representatives from the country.[7][8][9] Following the coup in 1953, a military government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran (Persian for an Iranian king),[9] to effectively rule the country as an absolute monarch. He relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979.[7][8][9][10] In August 2013, 60 years after, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that it was involved in both the planning and the execution of the coup, including the bribing of Iranian politicians, security and army high-ranking officials, as well as pro-coup propaganda.[11][12] The CIA is quoted acknowledging the coup was carried out "under CIA direction" and "as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government."[13]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état