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Americans and Europeans rarely ask themselves whether the widespread popular loathing of Western policy in the Middle East might actually be justified. In America, it is the 444-day hostage situation endured by US diplomats in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 that is seen as the outrage of the era, rather than the self-serving and illegal removal of Mossadegh three decades before. The
Most people know that President Nixon inherited the war in Vietnam, but few remember that in 1971 he initiated the war on drugs
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David Sheff
Officially, the West continues to pursue its goal of regime change in Syria, in the deluded hope that the Baghdad government will somehow help defuse the tensions between Sunnis and Shiites – even though their policies are part of the problem
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