"Abadan and Suez are important to the local people only in terms of their armour propre...to us, some of these things are important in a much more serious sense." George Kennan justifying imperial rule in 1952.
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CIA report describing the 1953 coup in Iran: "It was a day that should never have ended. For it carried with it such a sense of excitement, of satisfaction and of jubilation that it is doubtful if any other can come up to it."
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It’s an interesting episode in the handover of the empire to the republic. I wonder how that been working out.
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Not cool
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