Volume 26, Number 2 · February 22, 1979
A Shah Lobby Next?
By I.F. Stone
Since the Shah insists that he has left Iran only for a winter vacation, isn't there some way for Carter to send him pictures of snowbound Chicago and suggest he try Tahiti? This billionaire refugee spells trouble. The US government has a weakness for lost causes and for persisting in monumental misjudgments. It took Washington seventeen years to recognize the Russian Revolution, and twenty-nine to recognize China's. We still feud with Castro's. Nobody knows how many billions were wasted over the last half century in these Canute-like operations, all of them sheer nonsense since there has not been a major revolutionary regime yet that didn't end up anxious for trade and good relations.
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