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::Most critics attribute incompetence to Carter, rather than malice. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 13:53, 29 March 2007 (EDT)
::Most critics attribute incompetence to Carter, rather than malice. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 13:53, 29 March 2007 (EDT)
:::No. This illustration is extremely relevent. PF Fox has a habit of discussing personalities, and weighing decisions by policy makers according to some goodguy/badguy standard based upon favorable medfia coverage, or some such standard. PF Fox refuses to look at the underlying policy choices.
:::No, in the illustration of Chile, we are discussiong a regime that bolted the cooperative defence alliance with the US during the Cold War. US policy makers brought it back within the alliance. With Iran, the regime was al;ready within the cooperative defence alliance, and US policy makers actively deposed a friendly regime in favor of a hostile one which today is building nuclear weapons.
:::The crisis's we read about daily, today, about the threat how Iran is a tjhreat to world peace and stability, we can trace to these events. [http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1983/jan-feb/grinter.html] The personalities involved, Pinochet-Khomeini-Allende-the Shah-Breshnev-Nixon-Carter, while interesting, tell us very little about what we need to learn from these events on the policy making level. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 17:21, 29 March 2007 (EDT)