Comments on: 10 years after Khobar Towers http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/26/10-years-after-khobar-towers/ Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/26/10-years-after-khobar-towers/comment-page-1/#comment-4943 Jeff Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:45:48 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/26/10-years-after-khobar-towers/#comment-4943 I'm more mad at my own government for failing to act when it was clear there was a wrong committed against us. It's not a political thing either, despite my admiration for President Reagan I was plenty miffed that he cut and ran from Beirut after the Marines there were murdered. When will the world learn that appeasement and looking the other way are not going to work as foreign policy. I’m more mad at my own government for failing to act when it was clear there was a wrong committed against us. It’s not a political thing either, despite my admiration for President Reagan I was plenty miffed that he cut and ran from Beirut after the Marines there were murdered.

When will the world learn that appeasement and looking the other way are not going to work as foreign policy.

]]> By: Raj Bala http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/26/10-years-after-khobar-towers/comment-page-1/#comment-4925 Raj Bala Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:46:19 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/26/10-years-after-khobar-towers/#comment-4925 There's no excuse for the reluctance of any gov't to investigate acts of terrorism against its citizens, but we should learn that interference in Iran's (or any other country's) democratically elected leadership can result in a worse outcome than before. The current situation in Iran is a direct result of regime change in 1953. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax There’s no excuse for the reluctance of any gov’t to investigate acts of terrorism against its citizens, but we should learn that interference in Iran’s (or any other country’s) democratically elected leadership can result in a worse outcome than before. The current situation in Iran is a direct result of regime change in 1953.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

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