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This 5 page paper examines Stephen Kinzer's book "All the Shah's Men" with regard to America's foreign entanglements, and asks whether the nation is well served by a policy of effecting regime change in other sovereign nations. It further discusses Kinzer's book with regard to the promises President Truman made in his speech in Mexico City in 1947. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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it upon itself to dictate policy to the rest of the world, often with disastrous results. In his book All the Shahs Men, Stephen Kinzer examines some of Americas foreign
entanglements, and asks whether the nation is well served by a policy of effecting regime change in other sovereign nations. This paper discusses Kinzers book with regard to the promises
President Truman made in his speech in Mexico City in 1947. Discussion In his Mexico City speech, President Truman, like most presidents before and since, said that values such as
democracy, freedom, and human dignity are uniquely American, but implied that they belonged to all nations of the world. In holding out such claims, he raised hopes which were subsequently
dashed. American handling of international matters, with regard to Iran in particular, proved to be disastrous, and can be said to have constituted a betrayal of the promises implicit in
Trumans speech. America did not bring independence, democracy, freedom or any of the rest of its values to Iran; instead it started down a path that ultimately, in Kinzers view,
rebounded on the United States in the form of 9/11. The roots of September 11 go back nearly 50 years to the CIAs overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh, "the popular, democratically
elected prime minister of Iran" (Keddie, 2003). Once Mossadegh was gone, the U.S. "reinstalled the countrys exiled monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah" (Keddie, 2003). The return of the shah was a
betrayal of the principles Truman stated in Mexico city, because "Mossadeghs overthrow in 1953 undermined Irans progress toward democracy and independence, shored up a dictatorial monarch backed by the United
States and ultimately strengthened the only opposition the Shah could not suppress-the Islamic opposition" (Keddie, 2003). The coup was originally planned by the British, and as long as Truman
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