Volume 33, Number 8 · May 8, 1986
A Big Bungle
By Shaul Bakhash
All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran
by Gary Sick
Random House, 366 pp., $19.95
The Pride and the Fall: Iran 1974–1979
by Anthony Parsons
Jonathan Cape (distributed by Merrimack), 160 pp., $15.95
The recent debate over American policy toward the Marcos regime in the Philippines echoes the earlier debate over American policy toward the crumbling regime of the Shah of Iran in 1978 and 1979. There are important and generally overlooked differences in the two situations; but there are also striking parallels. Like the Shah, Marcos was an American ally finally in trouble with his own people. In the Philippines, as in Iran, Washington was faced with the difficult task of fashioning a policy to deal with domestic upheaval in a country with which it was intimately connected.
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