This is a picture of Muhammad Mossadeq, the Iranian prime minister overthrown by British and American intelligence agencies in 1953 for the unspeakable crime of nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (so named because the Iranians did all the work while the British took all the profits). How would you caption it? Well, if you worked…
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The Economist: Not quite as dumb as the Wall Street Journal? Perhaps!
The bright young lads in three-piece suits* who write the editorials for the Economist have come up with a stunner, *What would America fight for?* Listen to their jive: [W]hen America’s president speaks of due caution, the world hears reluctance—especially when it comes to the most basic issue for any superpower, its willingness to fight….