Mark Dankof: Giuliani, Ron Paul, and Operation Ajax: Or is it Operation Blowback? (American Free Press)

Giuliani, Ron Paul, and Operation Ajax: Or Is It Operation Blowback?

Book Review: The CIA in Iran: The 1953 Coup and the Origins of the U. S.-Iran Divide

Edited by Christopher J. Petherick

American Free Press Books

ISBN: 0-9785733-2-3153 pages, $20

by Mark Dankof for the American Free Press

Rudy Giuliani’s now infamous exchange with Ron Paul in the Fox-sponsored Republican Presidential debate revealed the former’s inadvertent—or willful—ignorance of the obvious connection between American foreign policy and insidious “blowback,” both in the Middle East and elsewhere.

My recent radio guest on the Republic Broadcasting Network, Dr. Jerome Corsi of both Human Events and WorldNetDaily, displayed a similar discomfort with acknowledging the connection between actions of the United States Government around the world, and predictable acts of retaliation and retribution on the part of past recipients of these American military and covert intelligence operations. Dr. Corsi rightly pointed out that the latter phenomenon is not justified by the former. But neither did Ron Paul indicate such, either in the Fox Presidential debates or in any other forum in which the Texas Congressman has participated over the course of many years.

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