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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Like Iran

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I was more referring to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan that the USA backed against the Soviets there. In Iran the USA backed the Shah, which was over thrown by the Islamic Revolutionary Front in 1979.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: the Ba'athists in Iraq were also heavily backed by America, even though they were pan-Arab Socialists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...that were willing to start a war with leaning-towards-Russia Iran

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The fact remains that America was supporting a socialist regime in a war against a theocracy - which really contradicts the claim made above that America was always supporting theocracies against left leaning regimes.