Subject: Re: So sez Murdoch’s WSJ
The debacle in Iran can be laid squarely at the feet of the USA starting in the early 50's. And with every intervention it only gets worse. Our execrable record of results when meddling with the internal affairs of foreign countries is inevitably making enemies, killing innocents and accomplishing squat.

Our rhetoric has consistently been "We stand for the rights of the people of the world to determine their own destinies through democratic, free and fair elections."

Our behavior has done a very poor job of matching that rhetoric. We've installed and/or supported dictator after dictator as long as they signed onto the anti-communism pledge, or more recently- the anti-Islamist pledge.

And then we wonder why our foreign policy is called hypocritical.

Some call it "real politik". I call it "failure".