Affirmative Action

[Jeanette X]

They've been in place ever since simply to keep Iraq more maleable to the UN's ministrations over his country.

So that makes it just fine to allow civilians to suffer and die?

The Soviets had Mosaddeq in their pocket, and were planning on using him for purposes of economical sabotage. It was of critical importance, not just to the United States, but to the non-social world, that such a thing did not come to pass.

That still doesn't explain why we set up the Shah instead of a democracy.

Actually, we censured him and then reported his actions to the UN, who made a full examination of the affair and eventually took action against him. Did the UN move with blinding speed? No. Did more Kurds die in the interim? Yes. Did we, in the end, help the Kurds? Yes.

What about the first Gulf war, when we urged the Kurds to rise up against Saddam, and then did nothing to help them as they were slaughtered