Yes, only the US has permission to involve itself in Syria and other countries. Anyone else doing it is clearly out of line. The US has a beam in its eye criticizing Iran's mote in its eye.
Mote? Are you aware of the extent of Iranian involvement in Syria? Yemen? Gaza? Lebanon where their puppets Hezbollah are part of the government?
I think it is opposite for many. US is considered evil whatever it does and meanwhile real evildoers like Putin, Assad, Kim Jong and the Ayatollahs are given free pass to do whatever they want. That comes from listening to RT and Glen Greenwald all day.
How did he compare to the Democratic government that came before? You know, the one the CIA toppled to make room for the Shah?
What democratic government? We must finally bury the myth that Mosaddeq was some kind of democrat. He gave himself emergency decree powers. He suspended elections so he would not lose. And he stole US and UK assets.
The whole story of his fall is much more interesting and complicated than the "US bad" version.
There's this weird idea in US foreign policy that in every conflict there's a bad guy and a good guy. All we have to do is figure out which one is the good guy, back that one, and everything will turn out fine. It is also complete nonsense.
I can fix US foreign policy in the Mid-East with four words: neither side is good.
There was a time, up until the 20th Century, where staying out of a war was considered a virtuous act. If North Elbonia and South Elbonia went to war, all their neighbors would say "as we are not a part of this war, you have no right to attack our trading vessels nor detain our people without probable cause." And that right was respected by the North Elbonians and the South Elbonians. So when the Duchy of Grand Fenwick sells a barrel of wine to the South Elbonian merchant, the best the North Elbonian soldier can do is say "now if only I could outbid, then I could deprive him of his wine." Now if some Fenwickite were to decide to join the North Elbonian army and got captured by the South Elbonian army, his actions deprive him of the protection of neutrality and do not reflect on any position of the Duchy.
Once it became accepted and then expected that other countries would intervene, the world became a more dangerous place. For you see, the reason North Elbonia and South Elbonia are at war is because North Elbonia was jealous of the lush gerbil farming profits on the South Elbonian gerbil farms. So the North Elbonians engineered a coup and installed their puppet Grand Poobah of South Elbonia who gave very lucrative gerbil farming contracts to North Elbonian countries. The South Elbonian freedom fighters got their act together, rebelled against the Grand Poobah, had him executed for treason, and appointed their own Grand Poobah who promptly cancelled the contracts. That is when North Elbonia used their giant slingshot to stage a "limited strike with no boots on the ground" against South Elbonia. Since North Elbonia is a US ally and US companies had invested in North Elbonian Gerbil Farming companies, the US had a stake in preventing self-determination and gave lots of propaganda about how the current Grand Poobah was naughty and the previous one is good, and the one before that was so naughty he eventually made a fortune off of the coal in his Christmas stocking. They hurt the independent Duchy of Grand Fenwick by saying "we have established an embargo against South Elbonia, you can't sell them wine, we don't allow it."
We? Who are we to say who the Duchy of Grand Fenwick is allowed to trade with? And why is the CIA trying to stir up domestic discontent in the Duchy? Yes, now a limited war between two countries involves both a neighbor and the US, making the world more dangerous.
And yes, mote. I am aware that Iran has more interests than just Syria. Now shall we call of a list of all the places the US has interests?
