Seems that back during and before the cold war with Communist Russia, the Russian people felt the same for America as the Iranian people do today. After all, wasn't Ayn Rand from Russia? Weren't her stories written against Communism, to protect the American people from it? Yet the favor which the Russian people had and the Iranian people have for us is being withheld from us by the news media and Government officials. It makes me ask the question of who our real enemy is.

Governments make war. People are peaceful.

 

Yeah people are peaceful. Take French Canadians for expample. They are peaceful in exactly the same way as an ice pick or a chainsaw is peaceful. Or perhaps a semiautomatic shotgun.

Stephen Kinzer is nothing more than a liar and might also be a communist sympathizer too. His book "All the Shah's Men" repeats what the communists said about the election of Mohammed Mossadegh and the 1953 coup (which was a legitimate action). You can also see his communist sympathies from this paragraph from his own essay: "For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Iran was ravaged by foreigners who subjugated its people and looted its resources. Whenever Iran has sought to modernize -- whether by building a steel mill in the 1930s or by nationalizing its oil industry in the 1950s -- outsiders have intervened to block it. This has made Iranians as sensitive to foreign intervention as any people in the world. It leads them to reject political forces that they see as sponsored, supported, or encouraged from abroad."

I find Stephen Kinzer's work meticulously well researched and right on the money, nearly all of the time. He is certainly not a commie, though he is a left-liberal. He represents the wholesome American values or non-interference, non-aggression and non-secrecy dear to our founders. His assessment of Iran's fate at the hands of foreigners quoted below in Mike's comment is dead-on and not even controversial. Iranian youths are massively positive about the US culture. They understand that our foreign policy is not the public will, that we are dupes and pawns of lobbyists from...you know where. Still, they adore our culture. All we need to do is stand back and let them evolve internally. If we do so, they will become the flower of the middle east, the most America-like, pro-US country in the ME bar none. As soon as we stop creating and propping up Radical Islam, it will collapse under it's own hateful stupidity. Were it not for US/raeli interventions, there would be hardly any Radical Islam in existence.