But I'd just like to note that coups driven by the avarice of American oil corporation boardrooms do not have a reliable track record of delivering happiness and wellbeing and liberty to the subjects of the odious dictators who are to be overturned for not sharing their oil revenue. (See also: Iraq, Iran in the 1950s, Nigeria, etcetera.)
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Date: 2008-06-19 10:03 am (UTC)But I'd just like to note that coups driven by the avarice of American oil corporation boardrooms do not have a reliable track record of delivering happiness and wellbeing and liberty to the subjects of the odious dictators who are to be overturned for not sharing their oil revenue. (See also: Iraq, Iran in the 1950s, Nigeria, etcetera.)