Quoting: hairball
I think you'll find America backed the other side!!
I think youll find,America armed both sides. Cant any of you remember Marine Clnl Ollie North? Iran contra and all that?
The Us was behind the toppling of a free and democratic govt in iran that led to the Shah's Dictatorship,which in turn led to the student revolt in the 1970s that toppled the Shah and let the religious nutters loose.
The long and short of it is,as far as the middle east is concerned ,Britain and france screwed it up big time in the first half of last century,then along comes uncle sam and makes the same dumbass mistakes for the second half. Remember ,Osama was CIA trainedand london educated, the horrors of the east are products of the west.