Buckley is defending the overthrow of a democratic president. The first in a long line US coups done for the sake of oil and at the instigation of BP in this case.
Hitchens core point in this is that US interference in Iran was, as in many US foreign policy disasters, a mistake that the results of which are still being felt in todays world long after these two intellects are dead. Always felt Buckly was a bit too pompous and affected.
"... there's a filthy theocratic dictatorship where they can't separate religion and politics..." Yes. It's called Islamism, and it's coming to a town near you, if it's not already there. Hitch, prescient as ever 40-odd years ago. Come on people. Don't put up with dangerous Islamist BS for the sake of DEI. Please!
Here is Buckley standing up for the imperial status quo. He is erudite in style but very shaky on substance. The pubic often swallowed his intellectual plumage whole. . We the people are no less gullible today although we continue to choke on the feathers.
Has anyone looked into the coup d'état of 1979 where the West removed the Shah and replaced him with the ayatollahs? BTW, one of the lovely ayatollahs just went to meet his maker after his helicopter crash!
Come now. Seems the other way around to me. Even the CIA have since coined the term "blowback" to describe the often-terrible, unforeseen consequences of their shady entanglements abroad.
They have both passed away, always enjoyed Buckley, well spoken man who at his core tried to leave the world in a better place. Unbelievable conversation where they matter of factly discuss political overthrows and the officers involved. Bill throwing in his support of the mulahs as traditionalists and Hitchens interupts they are back in numbers.
The Reagan gang are the ones that open the door for the so called Fox News station. Before Reagan, news stations had to give both sides of the news. Couldn`t just sit there and make up stuff.
Now that 23 years have passed, we can see that running outside of the two-party system (aka "The Uniparty") still doesn't win elections. The Uniparty's government/media/university/DOJ/three letter agencies /NGOs/corporate shills/Democrat-run teachers unions/extreme left DAs will use their influence in any way possible to, without shame or sufficient rational justification, suppress and censor you, slander you, deny you Secret Service protection, selectively drag you through court, or throw you in jail. Or all of the above.
Omg. For 12 years I’ve been telling people how disrespectful Arnold was toward his ex wife and he seems like a pos. Hahaha just learned it was an impression 😂😂😂
